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Wang Zongwang
Wang Zongwang (王宗望), courtesy name Pansou, was a Song dynasty official under Emperor Zhezong who built the seventy-li Golden Dike to close the Yellow River's northern channel.
Wang Zongyuan
Wang Zongyuan (王宗源), Chinese springboard diver born 2001 in Xiangyang, Hubei; double Olympic synchronized 3m champion (Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024), twice Olympic 3m silver medallist, nine-time world champion.
Wang Zu
Wang Zu (王祖) was a Chinese rebel leader from Zhangwu who rose against the Later Yan regime and finally surrendered after his ally Zhang Shen was defeated.
Wang, Kuo K.
Kuo King Wang, known as K.K. Wang, was a Chinese-born mechanical engineer and Cornell professor who put polymer injection molding on a scientific footing, founding CIMP in 1974.
Wanga Kingdom
The Wanga Kingdom was a centralized monarchy of the Luhya people in western Kenya, ruled by a hereditary king titled the Nabongo, with its capital at Mumias.
Wangan Midnight (湾岸ミッドナイト)
Wangan Midnight (湾岸ミッドナイト) is a Japanese racing manga by Michiharu Kusunoki, serialized from 1990, about street racers chasing extreme speeds on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway in the cursed "Devil Z".
Wangara
Wangara is a name from medieval sources for a gold-producing West African region and for the Soninke merchant diaspora that traded its gold and spread Islam across the Western Sudan.
Wangara gold trade
The Wangara gold trade was the West African commerce in gold run by Mande-speaking Muslim merchants, the Wangara or Dyula, from at least the eighth century.
Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues
The Wangaratta Festival of Jazz and Blues is an Australian music festival held since 1990 in Wangaratta, Victoria, featuring jazz and blues and the National Jazz Awards competition.
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai (Wangarĩ Muta Maathai) was a Kenyan environmental activist and politician who founded the Green Belt Movement and won the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize.
Wangchenggang and Yangcheng Sites
The Wangchenggang and Yangcheng site is a paired archaeological site at Gaocheng town, Dengfeng, Henan, combining a late Longshan settlement and an Eastern Zhou city, key to the search for the Xia dynasty's origins.
Wangchuan Collection
The Wangchuan Collection (輞川集) is a set of forty Tang dynasty poems in which Wang Wei and Pei Di each wrote twenty quatrains on twenty scenes of Wang Wei's estate.
Wangchuan Villa
Wangchuan Villa (辋川别业) was the Tang dynasty country estate of the poet-painter Wang Wei in Lantian County, Shaanxi, where he wrote the Wangchuan Collection with Pei Di.
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is a Kenyan American artist whose collages, sculpture, and film center hybrid female figures contesting Western representations of Black women and Africa.
Wangerooger Yachtclub
Wangerooger Yacht-Club e.V. (WYC) is a registered sailing club on Wangerooge, East Frisian Islands, Lower Saxony, Germany, running the western harbor's guest berths and the annual Rund um Wangeroog regatta, whose 50th edition was in 2024.
Wanggongchang Explosion (王恭厂大爆炸)
The Wanggongchang Explosion (王恭厂大爆炸), also known as the Tianqi Explosion, destroyed the Wanggongchang gunpowder depot and surrounding districts in southwest Beijing on May 30, 1626, and its cause is still debated.
Wangjaesan Light Music Band
The Wangjaesan Light Music Band was a North Korean popular music ensemble, one of the two pillars of 1980s and 1990s North Korean pop music.
Wangjiahuan (望家欢农产品集团有限公司)
Wangjiahuan, or Wangjiahuan Agricultural Products Group, is a Shenzhen-based Chinese farm-produce distributor founded in 1995, which raised an 800 million yuan round led by CPE in 2021.
Wangjialing Coal Mine
Wangjialing Coal Mine (王家岭煤矿) is a large underground coking coal mine in Xiangning County, Shanxi, China, known for the 2010 flood that trapped 153 miners.
Wangjialing Gangue power station
Wangjialing Gangue power station is a 1,320 MW coal-fired power station in Baode County, Shanxi, China, burning low-heat-value coal from the adjacent Wangjialing coal mine since January 2021.
Wangjiata Coal Mine
Wangjiata Coal Mine (王家塔煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China, operated by ENN Group subsidiary Xin Neng Mining, producing 8 million tonnes a year.
Wangki Lowang
Wangki Lowang is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who has represented the 54-Namsang constituency since 1999 and serves as a minister in the Government of Arunachal Pradesh.
Wangqu power station
Wangqu power station is a 1,200 MW coal-fired power station in Lucheng, Changzhi, Shanxi, China, consisting of two 600 MW supercritical units commissioned in 2006.
Wangsa Maju
Wangsa Maju is a township in Setapak, north-east Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, established February 1984 on a 400-hectare former rubber estate and designated a KL Structure Plan 1984 growth centre; its P.116 constituency has Malaysia's highest constituency population density.
Wangting power station
Wangting power station (望亭发电厂) is a large coal- and gas-fired power complex in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, owned by China Huadian and supplying the East China grid since the 1950s.
Wangwa Coal Mine
Wangwa Coal Mine (王洼煤矿) is an underground coal mine in Pengyang County, Guyuan City, in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, opened in 1990 and expanded to 6 million tonnes per year.
Wangwushan-Daimeishan UNESCO Global Geopark
Wangwushan-Daimeishan UNESCO Global Geopark (王屋山-黛眉山世界地质公园) is a 986 km² geopark in Henan Province, China, designated in 2006 around Wangwu Mountain, Daimei Mountain, and the Yellow River Valley.
Wangxiangu Scenic Area
Wangxiangu Scenic Area (望仙谷, Wangxian Valley) is a 4A-level scenic area in Shangrao, Jiangxi, China, built on a former granite mining site at Lingshan Mountain.
Wangyi Palace Incident
The Wangyi Palace Incident (望夷宫之变) was the killing of the Qin Second Emperor Hu Hai by chief minister Zhao Gao at Wangyi Palace in Shaanxi, shortly before the dynasty fell.
Wangzhihe
Wangzhihe (王致和) is a Beijing condiment maker founded in 1669 during the Qing dynasty, best known as China's largest producer of fermented bean curd, or furu.