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Lanzhou (兰州)
Lanzhou (兰州), capital of Gansu, China: a 4.4-million-person Yellow River valley city, petrochemical and research hub, once severely polluted, now with 82–86% good-air days and a national rail-freight and New Area role.
Lanzhou Botanical Garden
Lanzhou Botanical Garden (兰州植物园) is a free municipal botanical garden in Anning District, Lanzhou, Gansu, built from 1993 on the former Shijiawan Nursery, with about 530 mu, 380-plus plant species, a 46-mu lake, and the Dunhuang Garden.
Lanzhou lamb rotavirus vaccine (LLR)
Lanzhou lamb rotavirus vaccine (LLR, 罗特威), a live attenuated oral monovalent G10P[12] lamb-strain vaccine by Lanzhou Institute of Biological Products, licensed in China in 2000, with post-marketing effectiveness of roughly 35–77%.
Lanzhou Lanlü power station
Lanzhou Lanlü power station (中铝兰州铝业自备电厂) is a 900 MW coal-fired captive power plant in Honggu, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, owned by Lanzhou Aluminum Co Ltd and supplying its aluminum smelter.
Lanzhou-Chengdu Oil Pipeline
The Lanzhou-Chengdu Oil Pipeline comprises two trunk pipelines from Lanzhou in Gansu to Chengdu in Sichuan: a refined product line opened in 2002 and a crude oil line in 2013.
Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway
The Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway is a 1,776 km high-speed passenger rail line from Lanzhou through Xining to Urumqi, opened on 26 December 2014 as China's longest and its first built in high-altitude, windy regions.
Lanzón
The Lanzón, Spanish for "great lance," is a 4.5-meter granite monolith carved with a fanged deity, the largest sculpture of Peru's Chavín culture, still in its original position.
Lao Ai
Lao Ai (嫪毐) was a false eunuch who became the lover of the Qin dowager Zhao Ji, was made Marquis of Changxin, and was executed for revolt.
Lao Ai faction
The Lao Ai faction (嫪毐集团) was the circle of retainers and officials around Lao Ai, favorite of Queen Dowager Zhao Ji of Qin, destroyed after his 238 BC rising.
Lao Ai's rebellion
Lao Ai's rebellion (嫪毐之乱) was an uprising in Qin by Lao Ai, the Queen Dowager's paramour, who forged royal seals to raise troops and was defeated at Xianyang.
Lao Airlines
Lao Airlines (การบินลาว), formerly Lao Aviation, is the national airline of Laos. Founded in 1976, it flies Airbus A320s and ATR 72s to ten international and seven domestic destinations.
Lao Cai
Lao Cai (Lào Cai), mountainous Vietnamese province on the China border, gateway to Sapa; merged with Yen Bai province on 1 July 2025 into a new Lao Cai province of 13,256.92 km² and about 1.78 million people.
Lao epic tradition
The Lao epic tradition is the body of long Lao-language narrative poems composed from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, best known for the epic Sang Sinxay.
Lao Front for National Construction
The Lao Front for National Construction (Neo Lao Sang Xat) is Laos's principal mass organization, a political front led by the Lao People's Revolutionary Party.
Lao Gan Ma (老干妈)
Lao Gan Ma (老干妈) is a Chinese chili-sauce brand founded by Tao Huabi in 1996 in Guiyang, Guizhou. Known for its soybean chili crisp, it holds about one fifth of China's chili-sauce market, sells in 160 countries, and reported record 5.4 billion RMB revenue in 2025 without loans, financing, or listing.
Lão Hạc
Lão Hạc (Old Man Hạc) is a 1943 short story by Vietnamese writer Nam Cao about a poor widowed farmer forced to sell his beloved dog cậu Vàng.
Lao Issara
Lao Issara, meaning "Free Laos," was a Lao nationalist movement formed in 1945 to fight for independence from France; it proclaimed a government in Vientiane and dissolved in 1949.
Lao Jataka retellings
Lao Jataka retellings are Lao-language versions of the Jataka tales, the stories of the Buddha's previous lives, kept as palm-leaf manuscripts in monasteries and recited at the annual Bun Phavet festival.
Lao kip
The Lao kip (LAK) is the currency of Laos, subdivided into 100 att. Reintroduced in 1952 at par with the French Indochinese piastre, it lost half its dollar value in 2022.
Lao language
Lao (ພາສາລາວ) is the official Southwestern Tai language of Laos, spoken by about 7 million people, closely related to Thai, with a Vientiane-based standard of five tones and a 27-consonant script.
Lao Lishi
Lao Lishi (劳丽诗), Chinese diver born 1987 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong; 2004 Athens Olympic gold in 10m synchronized platform with Li Ting and silver in individual 10m platform; 2003 world synchro champion; retired 2010.
Lao Naixuan
Lao Naixuan (劳乃宣, 1843–1921) was a Chinese scholar-official of the late Qing and early Republic, known for leading the ritualist side in the criminal-code debates and pioneering alphabetic spelling for Chinese.
Lao nithan
Lao nithan (ນິທານ) is the Lao word for a folktale or fable, and the broad body of oral and manuscript narrative literature at the center of Lao storytelling.
Lao novel
A Lao novel is a work of extended prose fiction in the Lao language, beginning with Somchine Nginn's Phra Phoutthahoup Saksit in 1944 and shaped by war, revolution, and censorship.
Lao Patriotic Front
The Lao Patriotic Front (Neo Lao Hak Sat) was the political front of the communist Pathet Lao movement in Laos, founded in 1956 and led by Prince Souphanouvong.
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ)
Lao people (ຄົນລາວ), Tai-speaking group on both sides of the Mekong: ethnic Lao are ~30% of Laos, while most Thai Northeasterners (Isan) are of Lao ethnicity. Historic Lan Xang kingdom, 1904 Siamese reclassification, and a 1975–1980s diaspora distinguish the group.
Lao People's Armed Forces
The Lao People's Armed Forces (LPAF) are the military of Laos, founded in 1949 and the armed force of the one-party communist state since 1975, with around 30,000 troops.
Lao People's Revolutionary Party
The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and ruling communist party of Laos, founded in 1955 and in power without opposition since 1975.
Lao Qian (老千)
Lao Qian (老千, Cheater) is a 2025 Chinese 75-episode vertical micro short drama by Haiyu Xingkong, adapted from Ma Xiaohu's web novel, following gambler Chu Liu's revenge and anti-gambling message; a DataEye 2025 top-11 hit with sequel Lao Qian 2.
Lao rebellion (Anouvong)
The Lao rebellion (กบฏเจ้าอนุวงศ์) was the 1826 to 1828 revolt of King Anouvong of Vientiane against his suzerain Siam, ending in defeat and the destruction of Vientiane.