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Juanpi (卷皮)
Juanpi (卷皮) was a Chinese discount flash-sale e-commerce platform founded in Wuhan in 2012 by Huang Chengsheng and Xia Lifeng, ranking sixth in e-commerce users by 2016 before winding down.
Juárez Cartel
Juárez Cartel (Cártel de Juárez), also the Vicente Carrillo Fuentes Organization, is a Mexican drug trafficking organization based in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, founded in the 1980s, led by Amado Carrillo Fuentes until 1997, and now dominated by its La Línea armed wing.
Juazeiro
Juazeiro (BA), Brazil: municipality on the right bank of the São Francisco River, twin of Petrolina; founded 1833, city 1878; 237,821 residents (2022 census); center of irrigated mango and grape export farming.
Juazeiro do Norte
Juazeiro do Norte, a municipality in southern Ceará, Brazil, is the state's third most populous city (286,120 in 2022) and one of Brazil's largest pilgrimage centers, drawing over 3 million visitors yearly to the Padre Cícero statue and romarias.
Juba
Juba is the capital and largest city of South Sudan, on the western bank of the White Nile. Founded as a colonial town in 1927 on Bari land, it became national capital at independence on 9 July 2011.
Juba (sniper)
Juba was the American nickname for an alleged Islamic Army in Iraq sniper or sniper team in Baghdad (2005–2007), famous for propaganda videos of attacks on US troops; claimed kills ranged from 37 to over 700 and were never verified.
Juba Arabic (عربية جوبا)
Juba Arabic (عربية جوبا, Arabi Juba) is an Arabic-based expanded pidgin and pidgincreole spoken in South Sudan. It functions as the everyday language of the capital, Juba.
Juba County
Juba County is a county (ADM2) in Central Equatoria, South Sudan, hosting the capital Juba. Also called Jubek State (2015). 16-17 payams, 2008 census 368,436, OCHA 2025 estimate 570,834.
Juba I
Juba I of Numidia was the last king of an independent Numidia, reigning from about 60 BC until his death in 46 BC after Caesar's victory at Thapsus.
Juba peace talks
The Juba peace talks are negotiations held in Juba, South Sudan, producing the 2006–2008 Uganda–Lord's Resistance Army talks and the 2019–2020 Juba Agreement for Peace in Sudan.
Jubaiha Amusement City (Jordan)
Jubaiha Amusement City, also called Jubeiha Amusement Park, was a municipally owned amusement park in northern Amman, Jordan, that operated from 1987 until its 2017 closure.
Jubail (SWCC) power station
Jubail (SWCC) power station is a 1,570 MW gas-fired power station in Al-Jubail, Saudi Arabia, owned by the Saline Water Conversion Corporation and operating since 1980.
Jubail (الجبيل)
Jubail (الجبيل) is an Eastern Province Saudi governorate on the Arabian Gulf, home to Jubail Industrial City, the world's largest single industrial development project, founded by 1975 royal decree, producing 7% of global petrochemicals.
Jubal
Jubal (1956) is a Delmer Daves Western starring Glenn Ford, Ernest Borgnine, and Rod Steiger, adapted from Paul I. Wellman's novel Jubal Troop and loosely based on Othello; shot in Technicolor CinemaScope in Wyoming's Grand Tetons and released by Columbia in May 1956.
Jubal Early
Jubal Anderson Early (1816-1894), Confederate lieutenant general and lawyer, led the Second Corps and the Army of the Valley, raided to Washington's outskirts in 1864, then founded the Southern Historical Society and shaped the Lost Cause.
Jubaland
Jubaland is a federal member state in southern Somalia, formed in 2013 with its capital at Kismayo and made up of Gedo, Middle Juba, and Lower Juba.
Jubaland crisis
The Jubaland crisis is an ongoing dispute between Somalia's federal government and the Jubaland regional state, begun in 2013 and centered on control of Kismayo and its port.
Jubarte Field
Jubarte Field is a giant deepwater oil field in the Campos Basin off Espírito Santo, Brazil, discovered by Petrobras in 2001 and producing heavy oil since 2002.
Jubayr ibn Nufayr al-Hadrami
Jubayr ibn Nufayr al-Hadrami was a Syrian Tabi'i hadith narrator of Yemeni origin, based in Homs, who died in 694 CE and was graded reliable by critics.
Jubel beer
Jubel is a UK fruit lager brand founded by Jesse Wilson, inspired by Alpine beer peche; 4% ABV peach lager, vegan, gluten-free, fifth biggest craft beer in the UK on-trade, B Corp certified since 2022.
Jubensha (剧本杀)
Jubensha (剧本杀, script murder) is a Chinese hosted murder mystery role-playing game from the 2010s: character booklets, clue-searching, a paid host, one secret killer; ~45,000 shops and ten million players in China by 2021.
Juberg-Hayward syndrome
Juberg-Hayward syndrome (orocraniodigital syndrome, OMIM 216100) is a rare autosomal recessive ESCO2-related malformation syndrome with cleft lip/palate, thumb anomalies, humeroradial synostosis, and microcephaly; allelic with and milder than Roberts syndrome.
Jubiabá
Jubiabá is a 1935 Brazilian modernist novel by Jorge Amado about a poor worker in Salvador, Bahia, guided by the Candomblé priest who gives the book its name.
Jubilant FoodWorks
Jubilant FoodWorks is an Indian quick-service restaurant company that holds exclusive master franchise rights for Domino's Pizza and Popeyes. It operates 3,636 stores across India and other nations.
Jubilee (1978 film)
Jubilee (1978) is Derek Jarman's British punk film in which Queen Elizabeth I and John Dee travel 400 years into a dystopian London of girl gangs and a media mogul, starring Jenny Runacre, Adam Ant, Jordan and Toyah Willcox, with a Brian Eno score.
Jubilee (TV series)
Jubilee is a 2023 Indian Hindi-language period drama streaming series on Amazon Prime Video, co-created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Soumik Sen and set in Bombay's film industry around independence.
Jubilee (יוֹבֵל) (biblical)
The Jubilee (Hebrew yovel, יוֹבֵל) is the biblical institution of Leviticus 25 in which, every 50 years, Hebrew slaves are freed and ancestral land is returned.
Jubilee Field
Jubilee Field is a deepwater oil and gas field about 60 km offshore western Ghana, discovered in 2007 and the country's first major commercial oil discovery, producing since 2010.
Jubilee line
The Jubilee line is a London Underground line running from Stanmore to Stratford, opened in 1979, renamed for the Silver Jubilee, and extended to the Docklands in 1999.
Júbilo Iwata (ジュビロ磐田)
Júbilo Iwata (ジュビロ磐田), J2 League football club in Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan; founded 1972 as Yamaha Motor's soccer team. Three-time J1 champion (1997, 1999, 2002) and 1998-99 Asian Club Championship winner, now a J2 side.