Gao (disambiguation) explained

Gao is a city in Mali and the capital of Gao Region.

Gao or GAO may also refer to:

Places

• Gao (department), a commune of Ziro Province, Burkina Faso
• Gao County, in Sichuan, People's Republic of China
• Gao, a village in Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China
• Gao, Iran
• Gao Empire, ancient state in Mali
• Gao Region, a region of Mali
  • Gao Cercle, an administrative subdivision of Gao Region

Languages

• Gao language, spoken in the Solomon Islands
• Gao dialect of the Koyraboro Senni Songhay language spoken in Mali
• Gao-Yang Yue, spoken in the southwestern Guangdong, China

Battles

• Battle of Gao, the first of several battles in the 2012 Northern Mali conflict
• Second Battle of Gao
• Third Battle of Gao
• Fourth Battle of Gao
• Fifth Battle of Gao

Other uses

• Laccosperma secundiflorum, a species of tropical palm tree
• Faidherbia albida, an economically important species of tree found in Africa and the Middle East
• Gao (mansa), Mansa of the Mali Empire 1300 - 1305
• Gao (surname) (高), a Chinese family name
• Gao-Guenie, a meteorite that fell in 1960 in Burkina Faso
• Government Accountability Office (GAO), the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress
• Gao, a character in the manga Phoenix
• Gao Gao, a giant panda
• Gao Village, featured in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West

See also

• Gaos (disambiguation)
• Gaon (disambiguation)
• Goa (disambiguation)