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# Mango stories by place.

Local names, kitchens and orchards, with sources for every story.

- [A Mediterranean chapter.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/mangoes-around-the-mediterranean.md)

  Spain’s harvest and Sicily’s orchards reveal more than one mango growing in Europe. Follow familiar varieties into another part of their story.

  Mainland Spain and Sicily, Italy

- [The mango you grew up with.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/tamil-nadu-mango-memories.md)

  Start with Pathiri in Mayiladuthurai. Follow the names, gardens and older varieties that make Tamil Nadu’s mango world its own.

  Mayiladuthurai and Tamil Nadu

- [Names across a border.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/mango-names-across-borders.md)

  Chausa, Chaunsa, Langra, Dusehri. Explore the mango names shared by India and Pakistan, and the distinctions inside them.

  Northern India and Pakistan’s mango regions

- [A whole world in a pickle jar.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/mangoes-for-the-pickle-jar.md)

  Tender Appemidi, sliced Totapuri and the western Indian names preserved by pickle makers. Follow mangoes through the kitchen.

  Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat

- [Two parents. Two new mangoes.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/mango-family-trees.md)

  Meet Neelum and Dashehari, then follow their reciprocal crosses into Mallika and Amrapali.

  Indian research orchards

- [From Florida, into the world.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/florida-and-the-world.md)

  A family of cultivars leads from Florida into research collections and Brazilian orchards. Follow Haden, Irwin and Palmer.

  Florida, Japan and Brazil

- [What do you call this mango?](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/a-mango-many-names.md)

  Hapus, Baneshan, Kili Mooku. Three familiar fruits show how much knowledge lives inside a local name.

  The Konkan coast and South India

- [A mango’s place in everyday life.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/southeast-asian-mango-lives.md)

  A Thai variety name, a Perlis rice dish, a Vietnamese growing region and a Philippine scientist. Four ways a mango becomes part of a place.

  Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines

- [The orchard behind the mango.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/african-orchards.md)

  Kenyan Apple, West African Amélie and South African Sabre reveal three different ways a mango’s legacy grows.

  Kenya, West Africa and South Africa

- [A person. An island. A rosy name.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/names-rooted-in-the-americas.md)

  Follow Ataulfo into Chiapas, Itamaracá to Pernambuco and Manga Rosa into Brazilian selection orchards.

  Soconusco, Itamaracá and Teresina

- [Island names, wider journeys.](https://mangoranking.com/journeys/caribbean-mango-connections.md)

  Julie, East Indian and Francique connect Caribbean gardens, growing traditions and fruit boxes bound for other shores.

  Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Haiti