Kochi is a city in Kerala, India.
Kochi or Kōchi may also refer to:
People
edit- Kochi people, a predominantly Pashtun nomadic people of Afghanistan
- Kochi (古知 or 東風), 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
- Kōchi (髙地, 高知, 高智, or 幸地), 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
- 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 (fl. 2010), Bangladeshi Kabaddi player
Places
edit- 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
edit- 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
Other
edit- 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
See also
edit- Cochin (disambiguation), former name of the city in India
- Kōchi Station (disambiguation)
- Kochi University (disambiguation)