title: Lunda
text: # Lunda
  
  Lu(u)nda or Ruund may refer to:
  
  ## Places
  
  * Lunda (Asia Minor), an Ancient Roman city and present Catholic titular see
  * Lunda, Färingsö parish, a locality in Ekerö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden
  * Lunda, Ohio, an unincorporated community in Liberty Township, Union County, Ohio, United States
  * Lunda Sharif, a town in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  
  ### Africa
  
  * Kingdom of Lunda, a pre-colonial African confederation of states in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia
  * Lunda Norte Province, Angola
  * Lunda Sul Province, Angola
  * Kasongo Lunda, a town in Kwango District, Bandundu Province, the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  * Mission sui iuris of Lunda, a Roman Catholic mission sui iuris (primary pre-diocesan missionary jurisdiction) in Angola from 1900 to 1940
  
  ## Ethnography
  
  * Lunda people, a group living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Zambia
     * Eastern Lunda, a group living in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia
     * Kanongesha-Lunda people or Western Lunda, a group living mainly in the North-Western Province of Zambia
  * Lunda languages, a family of Bantu languages
     * Lunda language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Zambia
     * Ruund language or Northern Lunda language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
     * Salampasu language, spoken in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Elena Lunda (1901–1947), Italian actress
  * Lunda, a proposed bird genus including the tufted puffin
  * Lunda rope squirrel, a species of rodent found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola
  