Luo or LUO may refer to:

Luo peoples and languages

  • Luo peoples, an ethno-linguistic group of eastern and central Africa
  • Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania or Joluo, an ethnic group in western Kenya, eastern Uganda, and northern Tanzania.
  • Luoland, the tribal homeland of the group immediately above
  • Luo languages, a dozen languages spoken by the Luo peoples
  • Luo language (Kenya and Tanzania) or Dholuo
  • Southern Luo, a dialect cluster of Uganda and neighboring countries
  • Luo language (Cameroon), a nearly extinct language of Cameroon - not associated with Luo languages above

People

  • Luo (surname) (羅), Chinese surname
  • Luò (surname) (駱), Chinese surname
  • Jing Jing Luo, Chinese composer
  • Luo Changqing, killed in the 2019 Hong Kong protests
  • Michael Luo (born 1976), American journalist
  • Show Lo (born 1979), Taiwanese singer, dancer and actor

Geography

  • Luo (state), a Chinese feudal state, 11th–7th centuries B.C.
  • Luo River (Henan) (洛河, Luohe), a tributary of the Yellow River, flows mostly in Henan province of China
  • Luo River (Shaanxi) (洛河, Luohe), river in Shaanxi, China, second largest tributary of the Wei River

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  • Luo River (Fujian) (洛江, Luojiang), river in Fujian, China; flows into Quanzhou Bay of Taiwan Strait
  • Luo Scientific Reserve, a protected area in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Luo (also Luoyi 洛邑) the ancient Zhou capital: see Luoyang

Other uses

  • Luo (instrument), a type of Chinese gong
  • Luo, a character in the novel Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie

See also

  • LUO, the IATA abbreviation for Luena Airport in Angola
  • Luo River (disambiguation)