Mission facts for kids

A mission can be any of the following:

do you want to know what the California missions are well then great! there are 21 missions, who built the missions you said? father Junipero serra built all the 21 missions

Politics and government

• Diplomatic mission, a diplomatic outpost in a foreign territory
• Space mission, the launch of craft into outer space.
  • List of human spaceflights, a list of manned space missions.
• Combat mission, a military action.

Geography

In the United States:

• Mission, Kansas
• Mission, Oregon
• Mission, South Dakota
• Mission, Texas
• Mission Ridge Ski Area, Washington

In Canada:

• Mission, British Columbia, a district municipality in British Columbia
• Mission, Calgary, a neighbourhood in Calgary, Alberta
• Okanagan Mission, a neighbourhood of Kelowna BC, is locally known as "the Mission"

Non-English-language equivalents:

In Argentina:

• Misiones Province

In Brazil:

• Missões, Brazil, a region of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil roughly occupying the same area previously dominated by the colonial missions founded by Padre Roque Gonzales.
  • São Miguel das Missões, one of the best preserved of the old colonial missions
  • Guarani das Missões
  • São Paulo das Missões
  • Campina das Missões

In Paraguay:

• Misiones Department

Other uses

• Mission statement, a brief statement of the purpose of an organization
• Mission (grape), a variety of grape