Gao (disambiguation)

Gao is a city in Mali and the capital of Gao Region.

Gao or GAO may also refer to:

Places

 * Gao (department), a commune of Ziro Province, Burkina Faso
 * Gao County, in Sichuan, People's Republic of China
 * Gao, a village in Poyang County, Jiangxi Province, People's Republic of China
 * Gao, Iran
 * Gao Empire, ancient state in Mali
 * Gao Region, a region of Mali
 * Gao Cercle, an administrative subdivision of Gao Region

Languages

 * Gao language, spoken in the Solomon Islands
 * Gao dialect of the Koyraboro Senni Songhay language spoken in Mali
 * Gao-Yang Yue, spoken in the southwestern Guangdong, China

Battles

 * Battle of Gao, the first of several battles in the 2012 Northern Mali conflict
 * Second Battle of Gao
 * Third Battle of Gao
 * Fourth Battle of Gao
 * Fifth Battle of Gao

Other uses

 * Laccosperma secundiflorum, a species of tropical palm tree
 * Faidherbia albida, an economically important species of tree found in Africa and the Middle East
 * Gao (mansa), Mansa of the Mali Empire 1300–1305
 * Gao (surname) (高), a Chinese family name
 * Gao-Guenie, a meteorite that fell in 1960 in Burkina Faso
 * Government Accountability Office (GAO), the audit, evaluation, and investigative arm of the United States Congress
 * Gao, a character in the manga Phoenix
 * Gao Gao, a giant panda
 * Gao Village, featured in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West