Rao
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Rao or RAO may refer to:
Geography
- Rao, West Sumatra, one of the districts of West Sumatra, Indonesia
- Råö, a locality in Kungsbacka Municipality, Halland County, Sweden
- Rao Arrondissement in Senegal
- Rao, Senegal, the seat of the arrondissement
Transport
- Dr. Leite Lopes–Ribeirão Preto State Airport , IATA code RAO, serving Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
Fictional entities
- Rao (comics), a fictional star in the DC Universe; Superman's planet Krypton revolved around it
- Rao (Greyhawk), god of peace, reason, and serenity in Dungeons & Dragons: World of Greyhawk
- Raō, the Japanese name for Raoh, a character in Fist of the North Star
- Ramji Rao, a fictional character in Indian films including Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)
Mathematics
- Cramér–Rao bound, a statistical concept
- Rao–Blackwell theorem, a theorem in statistics
Science
- Rao (insect), a genus of wasps in the subfamily Platygastrinae
- Recent African origin of modern humans (RAO), a paleoanthropological theory
- Recurrent airway obstruction (RAO), a respiratory disease in horses
- Response amplitude operator (RAO), a function relating a response to an input given the input frequency
Titles
- Rao (title), cognate Hindi variations of the (originally Hindu) title Raja(h)
- Rao Bahadur, a title of honour issued by the British in India
Other uses
- Rai (disambiguation)
- Ray (disambiguation)
- Rau (disambiguation)
- Rao (Indian surname)
- Rao (Chinese surname)
- Rao language
- Rao's, an Italian restaurant in New York City, USA named after its founder, Joshua Anthony Rao
Topics referred to by the same term
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