Kata is a martial arts term referring to a pattern of defense-and-attack.

Kata may also refer to:

People

• Kata (given name), includes a list of people with the name
• Kata (surname), includes a list of people with the name
• Kata people or Katirs, alternative name for a tribal group of Afghanistan
• Kata (daughter of George I of Georgia) (fl. 1000s), a princess of the Bagrationi dynasty
• Kata (daughter of David IV of Georgia) (fl. 1100s), a princess of the Bagrationi dynasty

Places

• Kata, Myanmar, town in Kachin State, Myanmar
• Kata, Iran, village in Sadat Mahmudi Rural District, Pataveh District, Dana County, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province, Iran
• Kata, Tibet, village in the Tibet Autonomous Region, China
• Kata, Estonia, village in Kose Parish, Harju County, Estonia

Other uses

• Kata (programming), exercises in programming which help hone skills through practice and repetition
• Kata (mathematics), a name proposed for a direction in a fourth spatial dimension
• KATA (AM), a California radio station
• KATA-CD, a Dallas, TX, television station
• Kata Station, a train station in Owase, Japan
• Katakana, a character set in the Japanese writing language
• Ovine rinderpest, or kata, a contagious disease of sheep, goats, and other animals
• Kata, a Grenada drum