Corona

Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:


 * Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star
 * Corona (beer), a Mexican beer
 * Corona, informal term for the coronavirus or disease responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic:
 * SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
 * COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019

Corona may also refer to:

Architecture

 * Corona, a part of a cornice
 * The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, the east end of Canterbury Cathedral

Food and drink

 * Corona (beer), a Mexican beer brand
 * Corona (confectioner), Egypt
 * Corona (restaurant), in the Netherlands
 * Corona (soft drink), a former brand

Technology

 * Corona (software), a mobile app creation tool
 * Corona Data Systems, 1980s microcomputer supplier
 * Corona Labs Inc., an American software company
 * Corona Typewriter Company, merged into Smith Corona in 1926
 * Corona, a version of Microsoft's Xbox 360
 * Chaos Corona, rendering software

Fictional entities

 * Corona (fictional world), in R. A. Salvatore's DemonWars novels
 * Corona, a character in the game Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki
 * Corona, a character in the Spider Riders novels
 * Corona, a fictional kingdom in the animated film Tangled
 * Corona Mountain, the last level in Super Mario Sunshine

Film

 * Corona (film), a 2020 Canadian thriller drama film
 * La Corona (film), a 2008 American short film
 * Corona Zombies, a 2020 American comedy horror film
 * 1-2-3 Corona, a 1948 East German film

Games

 * Corona (solitaire), a card game

Literature

 * Crown of sonnets, a type of sonnet sequence
 * Corona (novel), a Star Trek novel by Greg Bear
 * "Corona", a poem by Paul Celan
 * "Corona", a short story by Samuel R. Delany

Music

 * Corona (band), an Italian music group
 * Corona, people at a cantus (Dutch drinking and singing party)
 * The Coronas, an Irish rock band
 * "Corona" (song), by The Minutemen
 * Corona (Takemitsu), by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu
 * Corona, the circle of clergy or singers who surround the altar, and origin of the term choir
 * La corona (Gluck), an opera
 * Corona Capital, music festival

People

 * Corona (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
 * Saint Corona, 2nd-century Christian saint
 * Corona (footballer) (born 1981), Spanish footballer
 * Corona Rintawan (born 1975), Indonesian physician
 * Corona Schröter (1751–1802), German musician, singer and composer

United States

 * Corona, Alabama, an unincorporated community
 * Corona, California, a city
 * Corona, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
 * Corona, Missouri, an unincorporated community
 * Corona, New Mexico, a village
 * Corona, Queens, New York City, New York, a neighborhood
 * Corona, South Dakota, a town
 * Corona, Tennessee, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

 * Corona Lodge, Berea, Gauteng, South Africa
 * Corona Station (pastoral lease), New South Wales, Australia
 * Corona Theatre School, in London, England
 * Estadio Corona, a stadium in Mexico
 * La Corona, an ancient Mayan city in Guatemala
 * Brașov, Romania (Medieval Latin name Corona), a city
 * Corona, Cuba, a hamlet

Astronomy and space

 * Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of a star
 * Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown constellation
 * Corona Australis, the Southern Crown constellation
 * Corona (optical phenomenon), coloured rings around Sun or Moon
 * Corona (planetary geology)
 * CORONA (rocket), a Russian prototype
 * CORONA (satellite), a 1959–1972 US satellite series

Biology

 * Coronavirus, a group of RNA viruses
 * Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a coronavirus responsible for the 2019–present pandemic
 * Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus
 * COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing global pandemic
 * Corona (gastropod), a genus of large tropical land snails
 * Corona (perianth), in the corolla of some flowering plants
 * Corona, anterior lobes of a rotifer
 * Corona of glans penis
 * Corona ciliaris, a part of the human eye

Mathematics

 * Corona theorem (or conjecture) in complex analysis
 * Corona algebra (or corona) of a C*-algebra
 * Corona graph product, a kind of binary operation on two graphs
 * Corona set (or corona), of a topological space

Physics

 * Corona (fluid dynamics), the last phase of a drop's impact on a liquid surface
 * Corona discharge or corona effect, an electrical discharge around a conductor
 * Corona poling, treatment of a material to enhance electro-optic properties

Automobiles

 * Toyota Corona, a 1957–2001 Japanese compact car

Rail

 * Corona station (Edmonton), a light rail station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 * Corona station (LIRR), a former railroad station in New York City, New York, US
 * IRT Flushing Line, a New York City Subway line, formerly called the Corona Line

Watercraft

 * French frigate Corona (1807)
 * MS Svea Corona, a former car–passenger ferry
 * SS Corona, a Finnish cargo ship 1922−1960
 * USS Corona (SP-813), a yacht used by the US Navy in WWI

Other uses

 * Corona (typeface), a font
 * Operation Corona, a British WWII operation
 * Corona, a type of cigar