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Bo

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ887314
Source-derived summary

Bo or BO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives

BA:BO, 2008 South Korean film

Bo (film), a Belgian film starring Ella-June Henrard and directed by Hans Herbots

Bo (instrument), a Chinese cymbal

Bo, a Greek rapper

Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus, a platform game

Call of Duty: Black Ops, a first-person shooter video game

Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, first in the Legacy of Kain video game series

People

Bo (given name), name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname

Bo (surname), name origin, plus a list of people with the surname

Bo (Chinese surname), Chinese family names

Bő (genus), Hungarian medieval noble clan

Bø (disambiguation), which includes several people with the surname

Bo people (China), a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China

Bo people (Laos), a very small minority ethnic group in central Laos

Bo people (Andaman), a recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands

Places

Bő, Hungary, a village

Bø (disambiguation), various places in Norway

Bo, Chanthaburi, Thailand

Bo, Hòa Bình, Vietnam

Bo, Sierra Leone, a city

Bo District, includes the city in Sierra Leone

Bo, Yaba, Burkina Faso

Le Bô, a commune in the Calvados departement, France

Palazzo Bo, or "Il Bo", the historic seat of the University of Padua in Italy

Bo (亳; bó, Bó), the original capital of Tang of Shang, who founded China's Shang Dynasty; its location is disputed. Two strong candidates are Yanshi Shang City and Zhengzhou Shang City

Religion

Bo or Bodhi Tree

Bo (parsha), fifteenth weekly Torah reading

Science and mathematics

Biology and medicine

Bacterial overgrowth, a medical disorder of malabsorption

Bowel obstruction

Bronchiolitis obliterans

BO strain of the Caenorhabditis elegans var. Bergerac model worm

Ficus religiosa, a.k.a.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Bo” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wikimedia, disambiguation and page.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wikimedia, disambiguation and page providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q887314. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Bo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.