Høng
Høng is a town with a population of 4,355 (1 January 2022)Hong Kong, a city and a special administrative region in China
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Hong, Nigeria
Hong is both a town and a Local Government Area in Adamawa State, Nigeria. Hong is the home of the State College of Education.
Government and infrastructure
The local government administrative headquarters is located within Hong.
The LGA fall ...
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Hong River
The Red River, also known as the Hong River (; vi, Sông Hồng; Chữ Nôm: 瀧紅; Chữ Hán: 紅河), the ' and ' (lit. "Mother River") in Vietnamese, and the (, ' Nguyên Giang) in Chinese, is a -long river that flows fro ...
in China and Vietnam
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Lake Hong
Hong Lake () is a freshwater lake in the municipal region of Jingzhou, in central China's Hubei province.
Its name originates from: ''Hong'' () vast, immense; flood, deluge + ''Hu'' () lake, and is used as the name for the nearby county-level ci ...
in China
Surnames
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Hong (Chinese name) Hong is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the Chinese surname (''Hóng''). It was listed 184th among the Song dynasty, Song-era ''Hundred Family Surnames''. Today it is not among the list of common Chinese surnames, 100 most commo ...
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Hong (Korean name)
Hong is the common English spelling of 홍, in hanja, it means "wide" or "big".
Clans
As with all Korean family names, the holders of the Hong surname are divided into different patrilineal clans, or lineages, based on their bon-gwan, ancestra ...
Organizations
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Hong (business)
A ''hong'' () originally designates both a type of building and a type of Chinese merchant intermediary in Guangzhou
Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capit ...
, general term for a 19th–20th century trading company based in Hong Kong, Macau or Canton
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Hongmen
The Tiandihui, the Heaven and Earth Society, also called Hongmen (the Vast Family), is a Chinese fraternal organization and historically a secretive folk religious sect in the vein of the Ming loyalist White Lotus Sect, the Tiandihui's a ...
(洪門), a Chinese fraternal organization
Creatures
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Hamsa (bird)
The hamsa (Sanskrit: हंस ' or ''hansa'') is an aquatic migratory bird, referred to in ancient Sanskrit texts which various scholars have interpreted as being based on the goose, the swan, or even the flamingo. Its image is used in Indian ...
, a mythical bird also known was hong
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Hong (rainbow-dragon)
''Hong'' or ''jiang'' () is a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology, comparable with rainbow serpent legends in various cultures and mythologies.
Chinese "rainbow" names
Chinese has three "rainbow" words, regular ''hong'' , literary ''didong'' , ...
, a two-headed dragon in Chinese mythology
* ''Hong'' (genus), a genus of ladybird
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