Mon

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Mon may refer to:

Places

• Mon State, a subdivision of Myanmar
• Mon, India, a town in Nagaland
• Mon District, Nagaland, India
• Mon, Switzerland, a village in the Grisons
• Anglesey or Môn, an island in Wales
• Møn, a Danish island
• Monreale, a city in Sicily, Italy

River

• Monongahela River of North America

Peoples and languages

• The Mon people of Southeast Asia
• The Monpa, an ethnic group of Tibetan origin
• The Mon language (of the Mon people)
• The Mon-Khmer languages, an Indochinese language family

Other

• Mon (crest), Japanese family heraldic symbols
• Monarch Airlines - IATA code for this UK airline
• Japanese mon (currency), a currency used in Japan until 1870
• The Gate (Mon (門, Mon^?)), a 1910 novel by Natsume Soseki
• The Mon Calamari (race), fictional amphibious humanoids in Star Wars

As an abbreviation:

• Member of the Order of the Niger, a Nigerian national honour
• Miscellaneous Organic NESHAP, a US pollution-control standard
• Mixed Oxides of Nitrogen, a type of chemical solution
• Monarch Airlines - UK airline
• Monday, a day of the week
• Monmouthshire
• Monmouthshire (historic)
• Monoceros, a constellation (group of stars)
• Monon Railroad, a former US railway company
• Monsanto genetically modified crops, e.g. MON 810
• Motor octane number, an octane rating for petrol/gasoline

[edit] See also

• Japanese mon (disambiguation)
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