title: Hao
text: # Hao
  
  Hao or HAO may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Hao (surname) (Chinese: 郝)
  * Hao (video gamer), Chinese professional Dota 2 player
  * Leo Hao, Russian artist
  * Heather O'Reilly, Professional soccer player
  
  ## Places
  
  * Hao (city), or Haojing (鎬京), capital of the Western Zhou, near present-day Xi'an
     * Xi'an, China, derived from the ancient city
  * Hao (French Polynesia), an atoll
     * Hao Airport
  * Hao Prefecture (濠州), of imperial China
  * Hao River, in Thailand
  * Butler County Regional Airport IATA code
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Art name (Chinese: 號, hào)
  * Hakö language, spoken in Papua New Guinea
  * hào, a disused monetary subunit of the Vietnamese đồng
  * Hao Asakura (麻倉 葉王 (ハオ), Asakura Hao), a fictional character and the main antagonist in the manga and anime Shaman King
  * High Altitude Observatory
  * High Armanen Order
  * Rauvolfia sandwicensis (Hawaiian: hao), a flowering plant
  * Hydroxylamine oxidoreductase, an enzyme involved in the nitrogen cycle
  