Donkey Kong Land, released in Japan as Super Donkey Kong GB, is a 1995 platform video game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. The game is the handheld sequel of Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), which spawned its own series alongside the SNES series. Donkey Kong Land was enhanced for the Super Game Boy and featured a "banana yellow" cartridge, which was later used for its sequels. Many of the game's background elements, character models, and sound effects retained the same style as those in Donkey Kong Country. Despite sharing common level themes, the level design and story in DKL are different.

Donkey Kong Land is a 2D side-scrolling platform game that borrows mechanics established in Donkey Kong Country and optimized others for use on the Game Boy due to hardware limitations. Similar to its console iteration, the A button is used to jump and swim and the B button is used to roll and grab barrels. The Select button allows the player to switch control between Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. However, only one Kong can be displayed on the screen at a time, while the second one teleports in when selected or when one Kong is hit by an enemy.

Mechanics borrowed from Donkey Kong Country include KONG letters, animal buddies, bonus rooms, and collecting bananas to gain extra lives. The player selects levels from a world map; there are four worlds in Donkey Kong Land, each containing seven levels, excluding the first world, which has a total of nine levels. Differing from their SNES counterparts, levels in Donkey Kong Land have only one or two bonus levels within stages.[1] The worlds, and the levels within them, are all unique to Donkey Kong Land, but follow similar level archetypes presented in the original Donkey Kong Country. The names of the levels are not mentioned in the game itself, but can be found in the instruction booklet. Finding all the secrets in a level causes an exclamation mark to appear over its icon in the world map.

Although enemies from Donkey Kong Country return in the Game Boy adaptation, Donkey Kong Land includes original antagonists such as Hogwash, Nemo, Fangfish and Hardhat. Additionally, the game's four bosses other than K. Rool are completely original to Donkey Kong Land.