Tanga

Tanga may refer to:

Places

Burkina Faso

• Tanga, Andemtenga, a town in eastern Burkina Faso
• Tanga-Pela, a village in northern-central Burkina Faso

Tanzania

• Tanga Region, Tanzanian administrative region named after the city
  • Tanga, Tanzania, a city and port on the coast of Tanzania
  • Tanga District, Tanzanian district
• Tanga Airport

Other places

• Tanga Islands, an island group in Papua New Guinea
• Tånga och Rögle, a village in southern Sweden
• Nosy Tanga, an islet in Diana, Madagascar

Money

• Tanga (coin), subunit of the Portuguese Indian rupia from the 16th-century until 1958
• Tanga (currency), subunit of the Tajikistani ruble from 1995 to 2000

Entertainment

• Tanga (film), a 1987 Brazilian comedy film
• "Tangá", a 1943 pioneering Afro-Cuban jazz composition by Mario Bauzá

People

• Tanga Byaling, Indian politician from Arunachal Pradesh
• Tanga Loa (born 1983), American professional wrestler
• Tanga Moreau, Belgian model
• Brian Tanga (born 1995), Kenyan rugby union player
• Jephte Tanga (born 2004), English professional footballer
• M R Tanga, Indian politician from Karnataka
• Yoan Tanga (born 1996), French professional rugby union player

Other

• 1595 Tanga, a main-belt asteroid discovered in 1930, named after Tanga, Tanzania
• Battle of Tanga, an unsuccessful British attack to capture the Tanzanian city and German East Africa during World War I
• Tanga (carriage) or tonga, a light horse-drawn carriage used in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
• Tanga Cement, a cement company of Tanzania, named after the city
• Tanga language, a Bantu language of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea
• Tanga Station, a monorail station in Kitakyushu, Japan
• Tanga, a style of thong underwear or beachwear

See also

• Tamga, an abstract seal or stamp used by Eurasian nomadic peoples
• Tamga (genus), a Precambrian fossil organism
• Tangga language, an Oceanic language
• Tango (disambiguation)
• Tanka (disambiguation)
• Thanga, a village in Manipur, India
• Tonga (disambiguation)