Koro

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title: "Koro" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public topic_path: "uncategorized" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Koro may refer to:

Geography

• Koro Island, a Fijian island
• Koro Sea, in the Pacific Ocean
• Koro, Ivory Coast
• Koro, Mali
• Koro, Wisconsin, United States, an unincorporated community

Languages

• Koro language (India), an endangered Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh, India
• Koro language (New Guinea)
• Koro language (Vanuatu)
• Koro, a variety of the Maninka language spoken in Ivory Coast

Polynesian culture

• 'Oro, a god in Polynesian mythology
• Koro (literally, "grandfather"), a term of respect in the Māori language for a male Kaumātua (tribal elder)

Other uses

• Kōrō, a masculine Japanese given name
• KORO, a Spanish-language television station in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
• Koro (incense burner), a Japanese incense burner
• Koro (disease), the syndrome in which someone believes their external genitals are retracting
• Koro Wachi language, spoken in Nigeria
• Musiliu Obanikoro, popularly known as Koro
• Nkoroo language, Nigeria

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