Long may refer to:

Measurement

* Long, characteristic of something of great duration * Long, characteristic of something of great

length Length is a measure of distance. In the International System of Quantities, length is a quantity with dimension distance. In most systems of measurement a base unit for length is chosen, from which all other units are derived. In the Inte ...

Longitude Longitude (, ) is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east– west position of a point on the surface of the Earth, or another celestial body. It is an angular measurement, usually expressed in degrees and denoted by the Greek let ...

(abbreviation: long.), a geographic coordinate * Longa (music), note value in early music mensural notation

Places

Asia

* Long District, Laos *

Long District, Phrae Long ( th, ลอง, ) is a district (''amphoe'') in the western part of Phrae province, northern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Song, Nong Muang Khai, Mueang Phrae, Sung Men, Den Chai, and Wang C ...

, Thailand *

Longjiang (disambiguation) Longjiang is the atonal pinyin romanization of various Chinese names, particularly or , meaning "DragonRiver". The same name also sometimes occurs as Lung Chiang, Keang, or Kiang. It may refer to: Places Rivers * Long River (Guangxi) * Long Riv ...

or River Long (lit. "dragon river"), one of several rivers in China *

Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...

or Changjiang (lit. "Long River"), China

Elsewhere

* Long, Somme, France *

Long, Washington Long is an unincorporated community in Columbia County, in the U.S. state of Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal governme ...

, United States

People

Long (surname) The Longs in Ireland got their names from a number of different origins. Some are of English, Scottish and Norman descent. The Norman de Long and le Lung arrived in the 11th century with the Anglo-Norman conquest in 1066 AD and established i ...

Long (surname 龍) LongThe approximate English pronunciation of the surname in Mandarin is . is the pinyin romanization of a Chinese surname. It includes / , which means "dragon" in Chinese, ranking number 80 on the list of common Chinese surnames in 2006, up fro ...

(Chinese surname)

Fictional characters

* Long (''Bloody Roar''), in the video game series

Sports

* Long, a fielding term in cricket * Long, in

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball cov ...

and similar games, beyond the service line during a serve and beyond the baseline during play

Other uses

* , a U.S. Navy ship name *

Long (finance) In finance, a long position in a financial instrument means the holder of the position owns a positive amount of the instrument. The holder of the position has the expectation that the financial instrument will increase in value. This is known a ...

, a position in finance, especially stock markets *

Lòng A longtang (, Shanghainese: ''longdhang'') is a lane in Shanghai and, by extension, a community centred on a lane or several interconnected lanes. It is sometimes called lilong (); the latter name incorporates the ''-li'' suffix often used in th ...

, name for a laneway in Shanghai *

Long integer In computer science, an integer is a datum of integral data type, a data type that represents some range of mathematical integers. Integral data types may be of different sizes and may or may not be allowed to contain negative values. Integers are ...

, a computer data type denoted by in many programming languages * Lóng, pinyin transliteration of 龍 or 龙, the Chinese characters for "

Chinese dragon The Chinese dragon, also known as ''loong'', ''long'' or ''lung'', is a legendary creature in Chinese mythology, Chinese folklore, and Chinese culture at large. Chinese dragons have many Outline of life forms, animal-like forms such as Bixi (my ...