Corona

Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:

Corona may also refer to:

Architecture
  • Corona, a part of a cornice
  • The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, the east end of Canterbury Cathedral, built to contain the shrine of Thomas Becket

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities
  • Corona (fictional world), part of R. A. Salvatore's DemonWars novels
  • Corona, a character in the game Doraemon: Nobita to Mittsu no Seireiseki
  • Corona, a character in the Spider Riders novels
  • Corona, a fictional kingdom in the animated film Tangled
  • Corona Mountain, the last level in Super Mario Sunshine

Literature
  • Corona (novel), a Star Trek novel by Greg Bear
  • "Corona", a poem by Paul Celan
  • "Corona", a short story by Samuel R. Delany

Music
  • Corona (band), an Italian music group best known for the hit single "The Rhythm of the Night"
  • Corona, a group of people at a cantus (Dutch drinking and singing party)
  • The Coronas, a rock band from Dublin
  • "Corona" (song), by The Minutemen
  • Corona (Takemitsu), a composition by Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu
  • Corona, the circle of clergy or singers who surround the altar, and origin of the term choir
  • La corona (Gluck), an opera
  • Corona Capital, music festival

Film
  • La Corona (film), a 2008 short film
  • Corona (film), a 2020 film

Games
  • Corona (solitaire), a card game

People
  • Corona (surname) (including a list of people with the name)
  • Saint Corona, 2nd-century Christian saint
  • Corona (footballer) (born 1981), Spanish footballer
  • Corona Schröter (1751–1802), German musician, singer and composer
  • Corona Rintawan (born 1975), Indonesian physician

Places

United States
  • Corona, California, a city in California
  • Corona, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in Minnesota
  • Corona, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Missouri
  • Corona, New Mexico, a village in New Mexico
  • Corona, Queens, a neighborhood in New York City
  • Corona, South Dakota, a town in South Dakota
  • Corona, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in Tennessee

Europe
  • Brașov (Medieval Latin name Corona), a city in Romania
  • Corona Theatre School, in London

Central America
  • Estadio Corona, a Mexican stadium
  • La Corona, an ancient Maya city in Guatemala

Products and companies
  • Corona (beer), a Mexican beer brand
  • Corona (soft drink), a former brand of carbonated drinks
  • Corona (confectioner), an Egyptian confectionery and chocolate company
  • Corona (restaurant), in the Netherlands
  • Corona Data Systems, a supplier of IBM PC compatible computers in the 1980s
  • Corona Typewriter Company, manufacturer of the Corona typewriter, merged into Smith Corona in 1926
  • Corona (software), a mobile app creation tool
  • Corona, a hardware revision of Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game console including "Slim" and "E" variants

Science

Astronomy and space
  • Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of a star
  • Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown constellation
  • Corona Australis, the Southern Crown constellation
  • Corona (optical phenomenon), in which coloured rings appear around the Sun or the Moon
  • Corona (planetary geology), a planetary feature
  • Corona (satellite), a 1959–1972 United States reconnaissance program
  • CORONA (SSTO), a Russian prototype unmanned rocket

Biology
  • Corona (gastropod), a genus of large tropical land snails
  • Corona (perianth), a structure in some plants
  • Corona, two ciliated anterior lobes of a rotifer
  • Corona of glans penis

Mathematics
  • Corona theorem (or corona conjecture) about the corona of the unit disk in complex analysis
  • Corona algebra (or corona) of a C*-algebra
  • Corona graph product, a possible result of a binary operation on two graphs
  • Corona set (or corona), of a topological space

Physics
  • Corona, the last phase of a drop's impact on a liquid surface
  • Corona discharge or corona effect, an electrical discharge around a conductor
  • Corona poling, treatment of a material to enhance electro-optic properties

Transport
  • Toyota Corona, an automobile

Maritime
  • French frigate Corona (1807), a Hortense-Class ship
  • MS Svea Corona, a former car–passenger ferry
  • SS Corona, a Finnish cargo ship built in 1922 and scrapped in 1960
  • USS Corona (SP-813), a yacht used by the US Navy during World War I

Rail
  • Corona station (Edmonton), a light rail station in Canada
  • Corona (LIRR station), former railroad station in the US

Other uses
  • Corona (typeface), a 1941 font
  • Operation Corona, a British Second World War initiative
  • Corona, a type of cigar

See also
  • Carona (disambiguation)
  • Coroana (disambiguation)
  • Corona Line (disambiguation)
  • Korona (disambiguation)
  • Koruna (disambiguation)
  • Krona (disambiguation)
  • Crown (disambiguation)
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