Gao is a city in Mali and the capital of Gao Region.
Gao or GAO may also refer to:
Places[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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