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Mangifera indica

Mangifera indica (mango), Anacardiaceae tree native from Assam to southern Yunnan, grown for its large drupe; two gene pools (Indian, Southeast Asian), 62 Mt production base, allergens Man i 1, 2, 4.

Mangione family of Maryland

The Mangione family of Maryland is a Baltimore-area business family that built an empire from a 1950 bricklaying firm, now holding Turf Valley Resort and Lorien Health Services.

MangistauMunaiGaz

MangistauMunaiGaz (MMG) is a Kazakhstani oil and gas company based in Aktau, western Kazakhstan, operating mature oil fields and jointly owned since 2009 by KazMunayGas and China National Petroleum Corporation.

Mangkunegara I

Mangkunegara I, born Raden Mas Said and known as Pangeran Sambernyawa, was a Javanese warlord who resisted the Dutch East India Company before founding the Mangkunegaran principality at Surakarta in 1757.

Mangkunegara II

Mangkunegara II was the second duke of the Mangkunegaran, a Javanese principality in Surakarta, ruling from 1796 to 1835 through the British occupation and the Java War.

Mangkunegara IV

Mangkunegara IV was the fourth ruler of the Mangkunegaran principality in Surakarta, Java, reigning from 1853 to 1881, who founded Java's first indigenous sugar industry.

Mangkunegaran

Mangkunegaran, also written Mangkoenagoran, is a Javanese principality and princely court in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, founded on 17 March 1757 by Raden Mangkunegara I through the Salatiga Agreement.

Mangla Dam (منگلا ڈیم)

Mangla Dam (منگلا ڈیم) is an embankment dam on the Jhelum River in Pakistan, completed in 1967 under the Indus Waters Treaty to store irrigation water and generate about 1,000 MW.

Manglesh Dabral

Manglesh Dabral (मंगलेश डबराल, 1948–2020) was a Hindi poet, prose writer, translator, and literary journalist from Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, known for Pahad Par Lalten (1981) and the Sahitya Akademi award.

Mangli

Mangli (మంగ్లీ), real name Satyavathi Rathod, is an Indian Telugu folk and playback singer, TV anchor, and actress from Gooty, Andhra Pradesh, known for Rela Re Rela Re, Saranga Dariya, Ramuloo Ramulaa, and Bathukamma festival songs; distinct from other artists named Mangali.

Manglish

Manglish is Malaysia's colloquial English, a basilectal contact variety mixing English with Malay, Hokkien, Cantonese, and Tamil. Known for particles like lah and lor, dropped copulas, and OED-recorded loanwords such as lepak and shiok.

Mango

Mango (Mangifera indica), a tropical Anacardiaceae fruit tree from southern Asia, called the King of Fruits; Indian and Indochinese cultivar groups, Florida-bred Tommy Atkins, Haden, Keitt, Kent dominate trade, India produces about 45% of world output.

Mango (retailer)

Mango (Mango Fashion Group) is a Barcelona-founded Spanish fashion retailer started in 1984 by Isak and Nahman Andic, with Woman, Man, Kids, Teen, and Home lines, 2,900+ stores in 120 markets, €3.8bn 2025 turnover, and 78% international sales.

Mango Technologies, Inc.

Mango Technologies, Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated software company founded in 2016 and headquartered in San Diego, California, doing business in California as ClickUp, a cloud-based productivity software brand.

Mangochi District

Mangochi District (also Mangoche, formerly Fort Johnston District) is a Southern Region district of Malawi on southern Lake Malawi, 6,273 sq km, population 610,239, Yao-majority, with fishing, farming, and Malawi's densest lakeshore resort strip.

Mangonel

The mangonel, also known as the mangonneau or traction trebuchet, was a medieval stone-throwing siege engine, a beam-sling machine powered by crews pulling ropes, credited to China and used in Europe from the 11th century.

Mangoola Coal Mine

Mangoola Coal Mine, formerly the Anvil Hill Coal Project, is an open-cut thermal coal mine in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, owned and operated by Glencore since 2010.

Mangosteen

Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana, Thai มังคุด), the Queen of Fruits, a Southeast Asian evergreen tree with apomictic seeds, 5-6 year juvenile phase, Thailand the top producer, and gamboge as the main fruit quality disorder.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Mangosuthu Buthelezi (1928–2023), Zulu prince, founder of the Inkatha Freedom Party, Chief Minister of the KwaZulu homeland 1976–1994, and South Africa's first Minister of Home Affairs 1994–2004, died 9 September 2023.

Mangrai

Mangrai (มังราย) was a Tai ruler who became king of Ngoenyang in 1259, founded Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, and is remembered as the unifier of northern Thailand's Tai principalities.

Mangrai dynasty

The Mangrai dynasty (ราชวงศ์มังราย) was the royal house that founded and ruled the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na from the thirteenth century until 1558.

Mangrai's conquest of Hariphunchai

Mangrai's conquest of Hariphunchai (การเสียเมืองลำพูน) was the capture of the Mon kingdom of Hariphunchai, centered at Lamphun in northern Thailand, by Tai king Mangrai of Lan Na around 1281 to 1292.

Mangraisat

Mangraisat, or the Law of King Mangrai, is a legal code of the Lan Na kingdom in northern Thailand, attributed to King Mangrai, founder of Chiang Mai.

Mangrove

Mangroves are about 80 species of salt-tolerant trees and shrubs of the tropical and subtropical intertidal zone, forming forests that store over 6.23 gigatonnes of carbon, protect coastlines, and support fisheries; global extent was 147,283.64 km² in 2025.

Mangrove swamp

Mangrove swamp: a tropical and subtropical intertidal coastal wetland dominated by salt-tolerant mangrove trees, about 80 species, 14.8 million hectares globally, defined by tidal flooding, salt adaptations, blue carbon storage, and coastal protection.

Mangsit

Mangsit is a coastal village, hamlet, and beach in Batu Layar, West Lombok, Indonesia, just north of Senggigi; known for dark volcanic sand, boutique resorts like Qunci Villas, beginner surfing, and the 2022 Ironman 70.3 Lombok race center.

Mangudi Marudanar

Mangudi Marudanar (மாங்குடி மருதனார்) was a Sangam-era Tamil poet from Mangudi village in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, who wrote the Maturaikkanci, the longest work of the Pattuppattu, in praise of the Pandya king Nedunjeliyan.

Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden

Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden (Маңғышлақ тәжірибелік-ботаникалық бағы) in Aktau, Kazakhstan, founded 1972; the only Western Kazakhstan scientific garden mobilizing plant gene pools in extra-arid desert conditions, 39 ha, 1,270 taxa.

Mangystau Region

Mangystau Region (Маңғыстау облысы, formerly Mangyshlak) is a southwestern Kazakhstan region on the Caspian Sea with capital Aktau; oil and gas producer (25% of national crude output), population about 826,000, contains Kazakhstan's lowest point at −132 m.

Manhae Literary Award

The Manhae Literary Award (만해문학상) is a South Korean literary prize established in 1973 by the publisher Changbi to honor the poet and independence activist Manhae Han Yong-un.