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Contents 1 Criminal organizations 1.1 Southern Italy 1.2 Other countries 2 Entertainment 2.1 Music 3 Other 4 Distinguish from

Mafia primarily refers to a number of Italian criminal organizations, particularly the Sicilian Mafia and the American Mafia. The term is often applied to other criminal societies as well.

[edit] Criminal organizations

[edit] Southern Italy

• The Camorra in Campania
• The 'Ndrangheta in Calabria
• Sacra Corona Unita in Apulia
• Cosa Nostra in Sicily
• The Stidda in Sicily

[edit] Other countries

• Yakuza in Japan
• Russian Mafia (Organizatsiya) in Russia
• Mexican Mafia in the USA
• Irish Mob in the USA
• Albanian Mafia
• Black Mafia Family in the USA
• Triad society in China
• Indian Mafia in India
• Pashtun Mafia in Pakistan
• Dixie Mafia in the southern USA
• Le Milieu in France
• Mungiki in Kenya

[edit] Entertainment

• Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven, a computer game
• Mafia 2, an upcoming sequel
• Mafia (party game), a party game
• Mafia!, also known as Jane Austen's Mafia!, a 1998 comedy film
• Bella Mafia, a 1997 TV movie
• Cashmere Mafia, a 2008 television show starring Lucy Liu
• "Mafia" (The Office), the sixth episode of the sixth season of "The Office"

[edit] Music

• Mafia (album), an album by Black Label Society
• La Bella Mafia, an album by Lil' Kim
• B.U.G. Mafia or simply Mafia is a Romanian rap group since 1995
• Three 6 Mafia, a hip hop group from Memphis, Tennessee
• Lisa Maffia, a British rapper

[edit] Other

• Mafia Island, part of Tanzania
• Berkeley Mafia, a group of Indonesian economists
• Bomber Mafia, a close-knit group of American military men who believed that long range heavy bomber aircraft in large numbers were able to win a war
• Greenhouse Mafia, a 2006 program on Four Corners about Australia's failure to respond to global warming
• Lesbian Sex Mafia, a New York City group for the support of alternative culture women
• Memphis Mafia, a group of associates of Elvis Presley from 1954 until he died
• Scottish mafia, a pejorative term for a group of Scottish politicians supposedly in control of the British Government in the recent Labour administrations
• The Main Event Mafia (M.E.M.), a Professional wrestling stable
• MAFFIA, a pejorative name for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, a UK Government ministry

[edit] Distinguish from

• mafic, a geological / mineralogical term

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