Dong or DONG may refer to:
Places
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Dong Lake
East Lake () is a large freshwater lake within the city limits of Wuhan, China, the largest or the second largest urban lake in China. Wuhan's East Lake covers an area of 88 square kilometers (33 square kilometers of water area). It is one of t ...
, or East Lake, a lake in China
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Dong, Arunachal Pradesh
Dong is a small village in Dong valley of Anjaw district, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
It is the easternmost village in the India, near the point where India, China and Myanmar meet. It is the location of a peak, atop which tourists climb at 3 am to ...
, a village in India
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Dong (administrative division)
A ''dong'' or neighborhood is a submunicipal level administrative unit of a city and of those cities which are not divided into wards throughout Korea. The unit is often translated as neighborhood and has been used in both administrative divisi ...
(동 or 洞), a neighborhood division in Korea
Persons
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Queen Dong
Queen Dong (17 October 1623 – 30 July 1681), birth name Dong You, posthumous name Chaowu Wangfei,''Haiji Jiyao ()'' by Xia Lin was the princess consort of Koxinga and mother of Zheng Jing.
Biography
In 1623, Dong was born in a Jinjiang f ...
(1623–1681), princess consort of Koxinga and mother of Zheng Jing
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Empress Dong (Ran Min's wife)
Empress Dong (董皇后, personal name unknown) was the only empress of the short-lived Chinese state Ran Wei.
Her husband was its only emperor, Ran Min. When he proclaimed the new state in 350 after overthrowing the Later Zhao emperor Shi J ...
, wife of Ran Min, emperor of Chinese state Ran Wei
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Empress Dowager Dong (died 189), empress dowager during Han dynasty
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Dǒng (surname) or 董, a Chinese surname
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Dōng (surname) or 東, a Chinese surname
Entertainment
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''Dong'' (film) (东), a documentary film by Jia Zhangke.
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Dong Open Air, a heavy metal festival in Germany.
* D!NG Channel (previously
Do Online Now Guys
Vsauce () is a YouTube brand created by educator Michael Stevens (educator), Michael Stevens. The channels feature videos on scientific, psychological, mathematical, and philosophical topics, as well as gaming, technology, popular culture, and ...
, or DONG), a YouTube channel and spin off of Vsauce, Vsauce2, Vsauce3, and Wesauce
Other uses
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Dong people
The Kam people, officially known in China as Dong people (; endonym: , ), a Kam–Sui people of Southern China, are one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. They are famed for their native-bred ''Kam ...
, an ethnic minority group of China
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Dong language (China)
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Dong language (Nigeria)
Dong, or Donga, is a poorly documented language in Nigeria. Though clearly Niger–Congo, it is difficult to classify; British linguist Roger Blench proposes that it is one of the Dakoid languages
The Dakoid languages are a branch of the Nort ...
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Vietnamese đồng
The dong ( Vietnamese: ''đồng'', Chữ Nôm: 銅) (; ; sign: ₫ or informally đ in Vietnamese; code: VND) has been the currency of Vietnam since 3 May 1978. It is issued by the State Bank of Vietnam. The dong was also the currency of the pr ...
, a unit of currency
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Ørsted (company)
Ørsted A/S (formerly DONG Energy) is a Danish multinational power company based in Fredericia, Denmark. It is the largest energy company in Denmark. The company adopted its current name on 6 November 2017, previously being known as DONG.
As o ...
, a Danish energy company formerly known as DONG Energy
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Danish Cup
The Danish Cup ( da, Landspokalturneringen; often referred to as Pokalen) is the official "knockout" cup competition in Danish football, run by the Danish Football Association. The cup has been contested annually since 1955.
The winner will quali ...
or DONG Cup, a trophy sponsored by the oil company from 2000 to 2004
* Dong, a slang term for the
human penis
The human penis is an external male intromittent organ that additionally serves as the urinary duct. The main parts are the root (radix); the body (corpus); and the epithelium of the penis including the shaft skin and the foreskin (prepuce) c ...
* Dong, an internet slang term for the character
Donkey Kong
is a video game franchise created by Shigeru Miyamoto and owned by Nintendo. It follows the adventures of a gorilla named Donkey Kong (character), Donkey Kong and his clan of other Ape, apes and monkeys. The franchise primarily consists of plat ...
derived from the meme "Expand Dong," which is an edited picture of the game ''
Donkey Kong 64
''Donkey Kong 64'' is a 1999 platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64. It is the first 3D game in the '' Donkey Kong'' series. As the gorilla Donkey Kong, the player explores themed levels to collect it ...
s box art
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Dong quai
''Angelica sinensis'', commonly known as ''dong quai'' () or female ginseng, is a herb belonging to the family Apiaceae, indigenous to China. ''Angelica sinensis'' grows in cool high altitude mountains in East Asia. The yellowish brown root of th ...
, a medicinal herb
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Lá dong
''Stachyphrynium placentarium'' is a species of plant in the family Marantaceae. Its basionym was ''Phyllodes placentaria'' Lour.de Loureiro J (1790) ''Fl. Cochinch.'' 1: 13. and was subsequently long placed as various species in the genus ''Phr ...
or ''Phrynium placentarium'', a type of prayer-plant
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Long Duk Dong
Long Duk Dong is a fictional character who appears in '' Sixteen Candles'', a 1984 American coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by John Hughes. Played by Japanese American actor Gedde Watanabe, the character is an Asian foreign exchan ...
or "the Donger," a character in ''Sixteen Candles''
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Rodong-1, a type of North Korean missiles
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Taepodong (disambiguation)
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