# Corona

Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to:
* Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star
* Corona (beer), a Mexican beer
* Corona, informal term for the coronavirus or disease responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic:
** SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
** COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019
Corona may also refer to:

## Architecture

* Corona, a part of a cornice
* The Corona, Canterbury Cathedral, the east end of Canterbury Cathedral

## Businesses and brands
### Food and drink

* Corona (beer), a Mexican beer brand
* Corona (restaurant), in the Netherlands
* Corona (soft drink), a former brand

### Technology

* Corona (software), a mobile app creation tool
* Corona Data Systems, 1980s microcomputer supplier
* Corona Labs Inc., an American software company
* Corona Typewriter Company, merged into Smith Corona in 1926
* Corona, a version of Microsoft's Xbox 360
* Chaos Corona, rendering software

## Entertainment, arts and media
### Fictional entities

* Corona (fictional world), in 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

### Film

* Corona (film), a 2020 Canadian thriller drama film
* La Corona (film), a 2008 American short film
* Corona Zombies, a 2020 American comedy horror film
* 1-2-3 Corona, a 1948 East German film

### Games

* Corona (solitaire), a card game

### Literature

* Crown of sonnets, a type of sonnet sequence
* 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
* Corona, people at a cantus (Dutch drinking and singing party)
* The Coronas, an Irish rock band
* "Corona" (song), by The Minutemen
* Corona (Takemitsu), 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

## People

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

## Places
### United States

* Corona, Alabama, an unincorporated community
* Corona, California, a city
* Corona, Minnesota, an unincorporated community
* Corona, Missouri, an unincorporated community
* Corona, New Mexico, a village
* Corona, Queens, New York City, New York, a neighborhood
* Corona, South Dakota, a town
* Corona, Tennessee, an unincorporated community

### Elsewhere

* Corona Lodge, Berea, Gauteng, South Africa
* Corona Station (pastoral lease), New South Wales, Australia
* Corona Theatre School, in London, England
* Estadio Corona, a stadium in Mexico
* La Corona, an ancient Mayan city in Guatemala
* Brașov, Romania (Medieval Latin name Corona), a city
* Corona, Cuba, a hamlet

## 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), coloured rings around Sun or Moon
* Corona (planetary geology)
* CORONA (rocket), a Russian prototype
* CORONA (satellite), a 1959–1972 US satellite series
* CORONAS programme, a Russian Solar observation programme

### Biology

* Coronavirus, a group of RNA viruses
** Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a coronavirus responsible for the 2019–present pandemic
*** Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), the disease caused by the virus
*** COVID-19 pandemic, the ongoing global pandemic
* Corona (gastropod), a genus of large tropical land snails
* Corona (perianth), in the corolla of some flowering plants
* Corona, anterior lobes of a rotifer
* Corona of glans penis
* Corona ciliaris, a part of the human eye

### Mathematics

* Corona theorem (or conjecture) in complex analysis
* Corona algebra (or corona) of a C*-algebra
* Corona graph product, a kind of binary operation on two graphs
* Corona set (or corona), of a topological space

### Physics

* Corona (fluid dynamics), 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

## Transportation
### Automobiles

* Toyota Corona, a 1957–2001 Japanese compact car

### Rail

* Corona station (Edmonton), a light rail station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
* Corona station (LIRR), a former railroad station in New York City, New York, US
* IRT Flushing Line, a New York City Subway line, formerly called the Corona Line

### Watercraft

* French frigate Corona (1807)
* MS Svea Corona, a former car–passenger ferry
* SS Corona, a Finnish cargo ship 1922−1960
* USS Corona (SP-813), a yacht used by the US Navy in WWI

## Other uses

* Corona (typeface), a font
* Operation Corona, a British WWII operation
* Corona, a type of cigar