Kobo

Kobo may refer to:

Geography

• Kobo (woreda), a district in Ethiopia
  • Kobo, Ethiopia, a town
• Kōbo Dam, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
• Mount Kōbō, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

People

First name

• Kōbō Abe (1924–1993), pseudonym of Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor Kimifusa Abe
• Kōbō-Daishi, a posthumous name of Kūkai (774–835), Japanese monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, and artist
• Kōbō Kenichi (born 1973), Japanese former sumo wrestler

Surname

• Bebo Kobo, Israeli businessman
• O. D. Kobo (born 1975), Israeli businessman
• Ronny Kobo (born 1980), American fashion designer

Fictional characters

• Kobo Tabata, title character of the manga Kobo, the Li'l Rascal (Kobo-chan)

Other uses

• KOBO, a radio station in California, US
• Kobo Inc., a Canadian company, a subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten, that sells e-books and markets Kobo eReader hardware and software
  • Kobo eReader, an e-reader
• Kobo whale, a blue whale skeleton
• Kobo, the subunit of the Nigerian naira currency

See also

• Co-Bo, a wheel arrangement in the UIC classification system for railway locomotives