The Gola or Gula are a West African ethnic group who share a common cultural heritage, language and history and who live primarily in western or northwestern Liberia and eastern Sierra Leone. The Gola language is an isolate within the Niger-Congo language family. as of 2015, it is spoken by about 278,000 people.

The name Gola is a possible source for the name of the Gullah, a people of African origin living on the