Banda may refer to:
People
edit- 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
- Benda Banda Ayyan Zaffar (born 2011), Professional Rooster
Places
editArgentina
edit- Banda Department, a part of Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina
Canada
edit- Banda, Ontario, a settlement in Ontario
Ghana
edit- 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
edit- 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
- Banda, Madhya Pradesh, Town and Tehsil in Madhya Pradesh
Indonesia
edit- Banda Aceh, a capital and largest city of Aceh province
- 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
edit- Banda, Uganda, a hill and the neighbourhood on that hill, located in Nakawa Division, within the city of Kampala
Music
edit- "A Banda (Ah Bahn-da)", a composition by Chico Buarque
- 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
edit- 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