Naga Explained
Naga or NAGA may refer to:
Mythology
- Nāga, a serpentine deity or race in Hindu, Buddhist and Jain traditions
- Phaya Naga, mythical creatures believed to live in the Laotian stretch of the Mekong River
- Naga, another name for Bakunawa, an unrelated sea serpent deity in Filipino mythology
- Naga Kingdom, in the epic Mahabharata
Clans and ethnic groups
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Organizations
People
- Prince Naga (c. 8th century), Japanese prince
- Tarek Naga (born 1953), Egyptian architect
- Nagarjuna (actor) (born 1959), Indian film actor
- Kal Naga (born 1966), Egyptian actor, director and producer
- Naga Munchetty (born 1975), English journalist and television presenter
- (born 1983), Indonesian male singer known as Naga
- Naga Kiran (born 1983), Indian actor
- Alobo Naga (born 1984), Indian singer and songwriter
- Naga Chaitanya (born 1986), Indian film actor
- Naga (director), Indian television and film director
Places
India
- Naga Hills, a group of hills on the India-Myanmar border
- Nagaland, a state in eastern India
Japan
Philippines
Other countries
Arts and media
Fictional characters
- Naga (Marvel Comics), a supervillain in the Marvel Universe
- Naga the Serpent, a character in the Slayers media franchise
- Naga, a character in the video game and anime series Monster Rancher
- Naga Sadow, a Sith Lord in the Star Wars Expanded Universe
- Naga, the primary antagonist of the anime television series, Bakugan Battle Brawlers
- Naga (The Legend of Korra), a female polar bear-dog character and Avatar Korra's faithful animal guide in The Legend of Korra
- Nagi, the reincarnation of Naga from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo ~Hikari to Kage no Eiyū~
- Naga Ray, a character from Uchu Sentai Kyuranger
- Naga, an operator in the video game .
Other fictional elements
- Naga (Dungeons & Dragons), various creatures
- Naga, a race of Rokugan in the Legend of the Five Rings fictional setting
- Naga (Warcraft), an amphibious race in the Warcraft series
- Naga, a battlecruiser-sized ship class in Eve Online
- Naga, a race of cryptids in The Secret Saturdays
- The Naga Empire, an antagonistic faction in the 2015 action-adventure video game Rodea the Sky Soldier
Other uses in arts and media
- Naaga, a 2003 Indian film
- Naga (album), a 2018 studio album by B.o.B
Other uses
- Naga languages, spoken in northeastern India and Myanmar
- Naga Bikol, the variant of the Bikol languages spoken in Naga, Camarines Sur, Philippines
- Naga fireball, a phenomenon seen along the Mekong River
- Razer Naga, a series of gaming mice by Razer
- NAGA (gene), which encodes the enzyme alpha-N-acetylgalactosaminidase
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