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Lagunes (district)
Lagunes District (District des Lagunes) is a first-order district of southern Côte d'Ivoire, chief town Dabou, formed in 2011 from the old Agnéby and Lagunes regions; 23,280 km², 2,042,623 inhabitants (2021), encircling Abidjan.
Lagunes (region)
Lagunes (Région des Lagunes) was a first-level region of Ivory Coast with capital Abidjan, abolished by decree n°2011-263 in September 2011; its territory, minus Abidjan, merged with Agnéby to form Lagunes District (capital Dabou).
Lagunillas Oil Field
Lagunillas Oil Field is a giant oil field on the eastern shore and shallow waters of Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela, onstream since 1926, with production peaking in 1967.
Lagus (crater on Dione)
Lagus is a 77-km-wide impact crater on Dione, moon of Saturn, centered at 13.56°S, 102.95°W, IAU-approved in 2008 and named for a soldier of Turnus in Virgil's Aeneid; it is a relaxed crater with a central peak.
Lagus (father of Ptolemy I)
Lagus was a 4th-century-BC Macedonian, husband of Arsinoe and reputed father of Ptolemy I Soter, founder of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, though ancient sources sometimes named Philip II as Ptolemy's real father.
Lagwagon
Lagwagon, punk band from Goleta, California (formed 1989 or 1991), first act signed to Fat Wreck Chords; skate punk and melodic hardcore pioneers whose albums run from Duh (1992) through Hoss (1995) and Railer (2019).
LaH10 superhydride superconductivity
LaH10 superhydride superconductivity is the near-room-temperature superconductivity of lanthanum decahydride, a clathrate hydride with a record transition temperature of about 250 K, first reported in 2018 and confirmed only at megabar pressures.
Lahaina, Hawaii
Lahaina (Lāhainā) is a historic West Maui, Hawaii town, former Hawaiian Kingdom capital (1820–1845) and whaling port, a National Historic Landmark district largely destroyed by the deadly August 8, 2023 wildfire and now rebuilding.
Lahami
Lahami, also written Wadi Lahami or Wadi Lahma, is a wadi on Egypt's Red Sea coast, the site of an ancient Roman road station and modern diving tourism.
Lahar
A lahar, also called a volcanic mudflow or debris flow, is a rapidly flowing mixture of volcanic rock debris and water originating on a volcano's slopes.
Lahar Mons
Lahar Mons is a 225-km-diameter shield volcano on Venus at 14.00°N, 162.00°E, about 1,300 m high and 150 km wide, named in 2003 for the Assyro-Babylonian goddess of domestic animals.
Lahaul and Spiti district
Lahaul and Spiti district (लाहौल एवं स्पिति), formed in 1960 with headquarters at Keylong, is Himachal Pradesh's largest district by area (13,833 sq km), a tribal, largely Buddhist cold-desert region bordering Tibet and among India's least populous districts.
Laheishancheng Yizhi (Old Black Mountain city site)
The Laheishancheng site, formerly the Chongchunhe city site, is a Tang-dynasty mountain fortress on Jingpo Lake in Ning'an, Heilongjiang, an ordinary Balhae-period military fortress protecting Balhae's northern border.
Láhej Sulci
Láhej Sulci (Lahej Sulci) is a 150 km system of subparallel furrows and ridges on Saturn's moon Enceladus, IAU-approved November 7, 2006, named for a city in the Arabian Nights tale "How Abu Hasan brake wind."
Lahevhev Tesserae
Lahevhev Tesserae, an IAU-named tessera terrain feature on Venus (1997), centered at 29.00°N, 189.00°E, 1300 km across; named for a Melanesian dead souls goddess.
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center
Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (Lahey Clinic), founded 1923 by Frank Lahey in Boston, is a nonprofit teaching hospital in Burlington, Massachusetts, and a Beth Israel Lahey Health member since the 2019 merger with BIDMC.
Lahkmen Rymbui
Lahkmen Rymbui is an Indian politician from Meghalaya and a United Democratic Party leader who serves as a minister in the state government, holding education and other portfolios.
Lahmacun
Lahmacun (Arabic lahm bi-ajin; Armenian lahmajo), also called Turkish or Armenian pizza, is a paper-thin meat-topped flatbread baked at high heat, popular across Turkey, the Levant, and Armenia, with a protected Gaziantep geographical indication.
Lahmu
Lahmu (Laḫmu), Mesopotamian primordial god: first god born of Apsu and Tiamat in the Enuma Elish, father with Lahamu of Anshar and Kishar; name also a class of hairy protective guardian spirits.
Lahna Turner
Lahna Turner, American stand-up comedian, musician, and filmmaker, wife of the late comedian Ralphie May; known for musical comedy albums like Limeade and the special A Song About It, the Pounds of Power comics, and co-directing the Come What May documentary.
Lahnau-Dorlar
Lahnau-Dorlar is the site of an early Roman military camp in Dorlar, part of Lahnau in central Hesse, Germany, occupied under Augustus between 11 BC and 15 AD.
Lahontan
Lahontan: Pleistocene Lake Lahontan of northwestern Nevada, its remnant closed basin and freshwater ecoregion, California's Lahontan water-quality Region 6, the Lahontan cutthroat trout, and a French commune.
Lahore (لاہور)
Lahore (لاہور), capital of Pakistan's Punjab province and its second-largest city with about 13 million people (2023 census), a historic Mughal, Sikh, and British center home to the UNESCO-listed Fort and Shalamar Gardens.
Lahore District
Lahore District (ضلع لاہور), Punjab, Pakistan: the country's most populous district, 13,004,135 people (Census 2023), 1,772 km², 100% urban, and Punjab's densest district at about 7,340 persons per km².
Lahore Durbar
The Lahore Durbar (ਲਾਹੌਰ ਦਰਬਾਰ) was the central court and government of the Sikh Empire, founded by Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Lahore in 1799 and ended by British annexation of the Punjab in 1849.
Lahore Fort
Lahore Fort, also known as Shahi Qila, is a Mughal-era citadel in Lahore, Pakistan, containing 21 monuments and inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1981.
Lahore Junction railway station (لاہور جنکشن ریلوے اسٹیشن)
Lahore Junction railway station (لاہور جنکشن ریلوے اسٹیشن) is Lahore's main station and Pakistan Railways headquarters, built 1859–1860 as a fortified castle-style brick building after the 1857 uprising, with the first train to Amritsar in 1860.
Lahore Music Meet
The Lahore Music Meet (LMM) is an annual free-entry music festival and symposium held since 2015 at the Alhamra Arts Council in Lahore, Pakistan, founded by Natasha Noorani and Zahra Paracha.
Lahore Qalandars (لاہور قلندرز)
Lahore Qalandars (لاہور قلندرز), Lahore's Pakistan Super League T20 franchise since 2016, won PSL titles in 2022, 2023, and 2025 under Shaheen Shah Afridi, and runs the Qalandars High Performance Centre.
Lahore Resolution
Lahore Resolution, or Qarardad-e-Lahore, also called the Pakistan Resolution: a 1940 All-India Muslim League demand at Lahore for independent states in Muslim-majority zones, the founding document of the Pakistan movement.