Lunda

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Lu(u)nda or Ruund may refer to:

Places

• Lunda (Asia Minor), an Ancient Roman city and present Catholic titular see
• Lunda, Färingsö parish, a locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
• Lunda, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Libery Township, Union County, Ohio, United States
• Lunda Sharif, a town in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Africa

• Kingdom of Lunda, a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia
• Lunda Norte Province, Angola
• Lunda Sul Province, Angola
• Kasongo Lunda, a town in Kwango District, Bandundu Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Mission sui iuris of Lunda, a Roman Catholic mission sui iuris (primary pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction) in Angola from 1900 to 1940

Ethnography

• Lunda people, a group living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia
  • Eastern Lunda, a group living in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia
  • Kanongesha-Lunda people or Western Lunda, a group living mainly in the North-Western Province of Zambia
• Lunda languages, a family of Bantu languages
  • Lunda language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Zambia
  • Ruund language or Northern Lunda language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
  • Salampasu language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Other uses

• Elena Lunda (1901–1947), Italian actress
• Lunda, a proposed bird genus including the tufted puffin
• Lunda rope squirrel, a species of rodent found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola