Banda

Encyclopedia

Banda may refer to:

People

  • Banda (surname)
  • Banda Prakash (born 1954), Indian politician
  • Banda Kanakalingeshwara Rao (1907–1968), Indian actor
  • Banda Karthika Reddy (born 1977), Indian politician
  • Banda Singh Bahadur (1670–1716), Sikh warrior

Places

Argentina

  • Banda Department, a part of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina

Canada

  • Banda, Ontario, a settlement in Ontario

Ghana

  • Banda Ahenkro, a town in Banda District
  • Banda District, Ghana, a district in the Bono Region
  • Banda (Ghana parliament constituency), a constituency in the Bono Region

India

  • Banda, East Godavari district, a village in Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Banda, Maharashtra, a small town in Maharashtra
  • Banda, Uttar Pradesh, a city and district headquarters of Banda District, Uttar Pradesh
  • Banda District, India, a district in Uttar Pradesh
  • Banda (Lok Sabha constituency), Uttar Pradesh
  • Banda (Assembly constituency), a constituency of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly
  • Banda (Vidhan Sabha constituency), Madhya Pradesh

Indonesia

  • Banda Islands, a group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea
  • Banda Sea, the sea of the South Moluccas, a part of the Pacific Ocean

Uganda

  • Banda, Uganda, a hill and the neighbourhood on that hill, located in Nakawa Division, within the city of Kampala

Music

  • Banda music, a form of Mexican music
  • Banda (opera), a musical ensemble which is used in addition to the main opera orchestra and plays the music which is actually heard by the characters in the opera

Other uses

  • Banda people, an ethnic group of the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cameroon, and Sudan
  • Banda languages, a family of Ubangian languages of Central Africa
  • Banda language (Maluku), an Austronesian language of the Kei Islands, Indonesia
  • Banda machine, a brand of spirit duplicator – a type of low-volume document copying machine
  • Banda (state), a former princely state in India
  • Banda, a large smoked fish in Chad
  • Banda, a caste of adivasis in Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand
  • Banda Deul, an 11th-century temple in Purulia district, West Bengal, India