ao.

n.  a Maori and Polynesian name for the personification of light and the upper world of the living.

Ao.

n.  a populated place in the Hyogo, Ishikawa, Mie, Nagasaki, and Toyama regions of Japan.


n.  a populated place in the Sor-Trondelag region of Norway.


n.  a stream in Central African Republic.


n.  a stream in Zaire.


n.  a village in the New Guinea Jungle, discussed in Where the Spirits Dwell: An Odyssey in the New Guinea Jungle by Tobias Schneebaum.


n.  a well in the Kanem region of Chad.

Ao Yai.

n.  a bay in the Chanthaburi and Trat regions of Thailand.

<Many of the islanders live in the small village behind the long pier that juts out from the middle of Ao Yai, just north of the shallow khlong.  —Paul Gray, The Rough Guide to Thailand’s Beaches & Islands.>

Aoa.

n.  a stream in Central African Republic.


n.  a stream in the Solomon Islands.

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