Ethnic, Political and Geographic Names and Terms
- The Tribe of Judah, the Hebrew tribe whose members regarded the above as their eponymous ancestor
- The Kingdom of Judah, the Biblical kingdom ruled by the royal line of David
- Yehud Medinata, the Babylonian and Persian province organised from the former kingdom of Judah
- Judea, the former territory of the Kingdom of Judah after its demise (c. 586 BC), being successively a Babylonian, a Persian, a Ptolemaic and a Seleucid province, an independent kingdom under the Hasmoneans regarding itself as successor of the Biblical one, a Roman dependent kingdom and a Roman province
- Iudaea Province, Roman province, with the Latin spelling
- Jew, derived from Hebrew "Yehudi" יהודי (literally, "Judean"); the derivation is more clear in German "Jude" and in Slavic "Zhid"
- Judean Mountains, modern Israeli name for the mountains around Jerusalem, politically divided between Israel and the Occupied West Bank
- Judea and Samaria, official Israeli name for the West Bank
- Other places
- Judah, Indiana, a small town in the United States
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