bongó

The term bongo may refer to:

• Bongo (Australian TV series), on air from August to November 1960
• Bongo Comics Group, a comic book publishing company
• Bongo (Dragon Ball) or Krillin, a character in Dragon Ball media
• Bongo (Indian TV series), an Indian television drama for children 2004
• Bongo, a character in the Matt Groening comic strip Life in Hell
• Bongo, a dog who played drums in the ITV children's series Animal Kwackers
• Bongo submarine, a fictional vehicle in the film Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Bongo, the cartoon ape bouncer from the 1988 film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• "Little Bear Bongo", a 1930 short story for children by Sinclair Lewis
  • Bongo, a segment of the 1947 Disney film Fun and Fancy Free, adapted from the Lewis story

Bengal ( /baŋla/ or Bônggo /bɔŋɡo/) is a geographical and ethno-linguistic region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, at the apex of the Bay of Bengal and dominated by the fertile Ganges delta. The Bengal region was politically divided in the 1947 Partition of India based on religion: predominantly Hindu West Bengal became a province (now a state) of India, while predominantly Muslim East Bengal became a province of Pakistan and later gained independence as Bangladesh. Some regions of the historical kingdoms of Bengal are now part of Nepal and the neighbouring Indian states of Assam, Tripura, Bihar, Meghalaya, Manipur, Jharkhand, and Odisha. The Bengali people ( Bangali), who speak the Bengali language ( Bangla), which is Indo-Aryan, natively inhabit the region, alongside dozens of indigenous ethnic groups who speak minority languages of the Tibeto-Burman, Austroasiatic, and Dravidian families.

Bongos (Spanish: bongó) are an Afro-Cuban percussion instrument consisting of a pair of small open bottomed drums of different sizes. In Spanish the larger drum is called the hembra (female) and the smaller the macho (male). Together with the conga or tumbadora, and to a lesser extent the batá drum, bongos are the most widespread Cuban hand drums, being commonly played in genres such as Cuban son, salsa and Afro-Cuban jazz.