Kochi is a city in Kerala, India.

Kochi or Kōchi may also refer to:

People

  • Kochi people, a predominantly Pashtun nomadic people of Afghanistan
  • , a Japanese surname:
  • Arata Kochi (born 1948 or 1949), Japanese physician and World Health Organization official
  • Jun Kochi (born 1983), Japanese football goalkeeper in the Dhivehi Premier League, Maldives
  • , a Japanese surname with a different pronunciation:
  • Kōchi Chōjō (1843–1891), aristocrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom
  • Kōchi Ryōtoku (died 1798), bureaucrat of the Ryukyu Kingdom
  • Jay Kochi (1927–2008), American organic chemist of Japanese descent
  • Momoko Kochi (1932–1998), Japanese actress
  • Mizuho Katayama (previously Mizuho Kōchi; born 1969), synchronized swimming coach in Japan <!-- please don't change to "Japanese synchronized swimming coach"; not clear whether she ever became a Japanese citizen -->
  • Erica Kochi (born 1979), UNICEF official
  • Kairi Kochi (born 1985), Japanese handball player
  • Yugo Kochi (born 1994), Japanese singer
  • A given name:
  • Kochi Rani Mondal (), Bangladeshi Kabaddi player

Places

  • Related to Kochi, Kerala, India:
  • Fort Kochi, one of the three main urban components which constitute the present day city of Kochi
  • Kochi International Book Festival, an annual event conducted at the coastal city of Kochi
  • Kochi metropolitan area, also known as Kochi Urban Agglomeration or Kochi UA
  • Kōchi, Hiroshima, a former town in Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
  • Kōchi (city), the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Kōchi Castle, a castle located in Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Kōchi Prefecture, a prefecture in Japan
  • Kōchi Ryōma Airport, also known as Kōchi Airport, a regional airport in Nankoku, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan
  • Kochi Sub-county of Yumbe District, Uganda<!---->
  • River Kochi at Kochi Sub-county of Yumbe, Uganda

Business

  • Kochi Metro Rail, a mass transit system for the southern India city of Kochi
  • Kochi Refineries, a petroleum company in India
  • Kochi Tuskers Kerala, a 2011 IPL cricket team, now defunct
  • Kochi Broadcasting, a radio and television broadcaster in Kochi Prefecture, Japan
  • TV Kochi, a television station in Kochi Prefecture, Japan
  • Kochi Sun Sun Broadcasting, a television station in Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Other

  • 2396 Kochi, an asteroid discovered in 1981
  • Kochi, a name for the Rampuri dialect of Mahasu Pahari
  • Kochi font, a font development project by Yasuyuki Furukawa to build free replacements of proprietary fonts
  • Kochi reaction, an organic reaction for the decarboxylation of carboxylic acids to alkyl halides
  • Kochi (kuih), a Malay-style cake with coconut filling
  • Kochi Fighting Dogs, a semi-professional baseball team in the Shikoku Island League of Japan
  • Kochi Tuskers Kerala, a former Indian Premier League T20 cricket team
  • Kochi (restaurant), a Michelin-starred restaurant in New York specializing in skewers

See also

  • Cochin (disambiguation), former name of the city in India
  • Kōchi Station (disambiguation)
  • Kochi University (disambiguation)