Mongo

Mongo may refer to:

Geographic

• Mongo, Chad, a city
• Mongo, Sierra Leone, a chiefdom
• Mongo, Indiana, a small town in the United States
• Mongo (planet), the fictional setting for the adventures of Flash Gordon

People

• Mongo people, one of the largest ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Mongo language, the language of the Mongo people
• Mongo Santamaría, a Cuban jazz percussionist
• Steve McMichael ("Mongo" McMichael), a former American football player and professional wrestler
• Mongo, a pejorative English word for those affected with Down Syndrome, due to the characteristic epicanthic folds on their upper eyelids, like those of Mongoloid people

Fictional

• Mongo the Magnificent, a fictional private investigator with dwarfism
• Mongo, a character played by Alex Karras in the 1974 comedy film Blazing Saddles
• Magic Mongo, a fictional genie featured in segments of the Saturday morning TV program The Krofft Supershow
• Mongo, an imaginary person in the comedy film There's Something About Mary.
• Mongo (Shrek), a fictional giant gingerbread man in the animated movie Shrek 2

Other uses

• Stomatepia mongo, a critically endangered species of cichlid fish of Cameroun.
• Mongo (horse), American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
• Möngö ("money" in Mongolian language) and also a Mongolian monetary unit, where 100 Möngö equal 1 Mongolian tögrög
• Mongo, objects rescued from the trash during Dumpster diving
• Mongo Ika and Uzusho Mongo, Japanese cuttlefish sushi
• The Mongo (graphics program), an interactive graphics program distributed under the GNU General Public License
• MongoDB, an open source document-oriented database.
• A variant of mondo, meaning "to a great degree, extremely, very"
• A variant of mong, a derogatory shortening of Mongoloid
• Mongo foot, a style of skateboarding, where one uses one's leading foot to push
• Monggo, a commonly used name in the Philippines for mung beans

See also

• Monga (disambiguation)
• Mongol
• Mungo (disambiguation)

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