Bongo Explained

Bongo may refer to:

Entertainment

• Bongo (Australian TV series), on air from August to November 1960
• Bongo Comics, a comic book publishing company
• Bongo (Dragon Ball) or Krillin, a character in Dragon Ball media
• Bongo (Indian TV series), an Indian television drama for children 2004
• Bongo, a character in the Matt Groening comic strip Life in Hell
• Bongo, a dog who played drums in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
• Bongo Submarine, a fictional vehicle in the film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
• Bongo, the cartoon ape bouncer from the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• "Little Bear Bongo", a 1930 short story for children by Sinclair Lewis
  • Bongo, a segment of the 1947 Disney film Fun and Fancy Free, adapted from the Lewis story

Music

• Bongo drum, a percussion instrument made up of two small drums attached to each other
• The Bongos, an America pop music band
• Music Man Bongo, a model of bass guitar
• "Bongos" (song), a 2023 song by Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion

Places

• Bongo Country, the name of several places in Africa
• Bongo District, a district in the Upper East Region of Ghana
  • Bongo, Ghana, a town, capital of Bongo District
  • Bongo (Ghana parliament constituency), in Bongo District
• Bongo Gewog, a village in Chukha District, Bhutan
• Bongo, Ivory Coast, a sub-prefecture and commune
• , Sulu Archipelago, Philippines
• Bongo Massif, a mountain range in north-eastern Central African Republic
• Bôngo, alternative name for Bengal (eastern India and Bangladesh)
• Mbongo, Angola, a town in Huambo Province, Angola, often called Bongo
• El Bongo, Panama

Transportation

• Bongo (canoe), typically found in the Hispanic Caribbean regions
• Kia Bongo, an automobile
• Mazda Bongo, a van
• Gin Bongo, a South Korean paraglider design
• LNER Thompson Class B1, known as 'Bongos' or 'Antelope'

People

• Bongo people (Gabon), a forest people
• Bongo people (South Sudan), an ethnic group in Sudan

Names

• Bongo (name), a list of people with the surname
• Bongo Herman (born 1941), Jamaican percussionist and singer Herman Davis, active in the early 1960s
• Bongo Joe Coleman (1923–1999), American street musician
• Sketchy Bongo (born 1989), South African record producer, DJ, and songwriter
• Steady Bongo (born 1966), Sierra Leonean musician and record producer
• Bongo (Numan Athletics), video game character

Other uses

• Bongo (antelope), a species of forest antelope from Africa
• Cavanillesia platanifolia, a tree also known as bongo
• Bongo language, the language of the Bongo people of Sudan
• Bongo (software), an open source mail and calendar project
• DK Bongos, a video game controller
• Bongo Jeans/Bongo Apparel, a clothing brand that was acquired by the Iconix Brand Group in 1998
• Operation Bongo II, 1964 Oklahoma City sonic boom tests

See also

• Bongo Bongo Land, a derogatory reference to Third World countries, particularly those in Africa
• Bongo-Bongo (linguistics), used as a name for an imaginary language
• Bonga (disambiguation)
• Bungo (disambiguation)
• Mbongo (disambiguation)
• Um Bongo, a fruit drink marketed at children
• Bong Go, a Filipino politician