Koya Explained

Koya may refer to:

Places

Iraq

• Koya; (Arabic: كيويسنجق|link=no), a town in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Koya University, a university in that town

Japan

• Mount Kōya, a mountain in Japan
  • Kōya, Wakayama, a town on the top of Mount Kōya
• Kōya Station (Tokyo), a train station in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
• Nankai Kōya Line, a railway line in Osaka and Wakayama Prefectures between Osaka and Koyasan

Sierra Leone

• Kingdom of Koya, a pre-colonial African state in what is now northern Sierra Leone
• Koya, Sierra Leone, a village in Sierra Leone

People and languages

• Koya (name), a given name and surname
• Koya (Malabar), a Muslim community in south India
• Gyele people, Cameroonian pygmies
• Kola people, Gabonese pygmies
• Koya language, a language spoken in India
• Koya (tribe), a scheduled tribe in India, speakers of the Koya language
• Koya, ring name of Indian professional wrestler Mahabali Shera
• Koyah (fl. 1787 – 1795), Haida chief in British Columbia

Other uses

• KOYA, radio station in South Dakota, United States
• Koya score, a tiebreaker criterion for group tournaments