Kota or KOTA may refer to:
- Kota brahmin, a sub-caste of Brahmins in Karnataka
- The Kota tribe whose members live in the Nilgiri hills of Tamil Nadu, South India
- The Kota language, a Dravidian language spoken in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu
- The Kota (Bakota) tribe whose members live primarily in the northeastern region of Gabon in Central Africa
- The Kota (iKota) language, a bantu language of the Bakota people of Gabon
- Knights of the Abyss, a deathcore band from Glendale, Arizona
- Kota the triceratops, an animatronic toy
- Kota, or goahti, a native Saami (Lapp) tent, similar to a tipi
- Media
- KOTA (AM), a radio station (1380 AM) licensed to Rapid City, South Dakota, United States
- KOTA-TV, a television station (channel 3 analog/2 digital) licensed to Rapid City, South Dakota, United States
- Places
- Indonesia
- Administrative division usually translated as "city", above district (kecamatan), below province, equivalent to regency (kabupaten)
- Kota, Jakarta, an old area in Jakarta
- Kota Gede, Yogyakarta
- Malaysia
- Kota Bahru, the capital of Kelantan
- Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah
- Kota, Negeri Sembilan, a small town in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan
- India
- Kota, Rajasthan, a city in Rajasthan state
- Kota District, a district of Rajasthan state
- Kota (Lok Sabha constituency), a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency of Rajasthan
- Kota, Karnataka, an area in Karnataka state
- Kota, Andhra Pradesh, mandal headquarters in Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh
- Kota, Bilaspur, a city in Chhattisgarh
- Kota, Uttar Pradesh, a town in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh.
- Japan
- Kōta, Aichi, a town in Aichi Prefecture
- Nepal
- Kota, Nepal
- Kota, Gandaki
- Politics
- Association of Timorese Heroes
- Names
- Kota Srinivasa Rao, a Tollywood actor