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Yalgaar (यलगार)
Yalgaar (यलगार), a 1992 Hindi action drama directed and produced by Feroz Khan, stars Feroz Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Kabir Bedi, Manisha Koirala, and Nagma; released October 1992 by F.K. International.
Yalgorup National Park
Yalgorup National Park, Western Australia: 13,140 ha park between Mandurah and Bunbury with ten Ramsar-listed lakes, home to the 2,000-year-old living thrombolites of Lake Clifton.
Yali Dou
Yali Dou (窦亚丽) is a molecular biologist who studies epigenetics and chromatin biology, known for her work on MLL methyltransferases and leukemia, and a professor at USC.
Yali Topol Margalith
Yali Topol Margalith (born 2000), Israeli-born London-based actress and granddaughter of Chaim Topol; plays Cilka in The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Lauren Gibson in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, Mirab in House of David.
Yalitza Aparicio
Yalitza Aparicio Martínez is a Mexican actress who debuted untrained as Cleo in Alfonso Cuarón's Roma in 2018, becoming the first Indigenous Mexican woman nominated for Best Actress.
Yalı
A yalı, meaning "waterside" in Turkish, is a traditional Ottoman waterfront residence on the Bosphorus shores of Istanbul, used by the urban elite as a summer house.
Yalı Çapkını
Yalı Çapkını (The Kingfisher) is a Turkish Star TV drama by OGM Pictures, aired 23 September 2022 to 4 April 2025, 101 episodes, starring Afra Saraçoğlu and Mert Ramazan Demir in a Gaziantep arranged-marriage story; 2022's most-watched series, ratings later declined.
Yalın
Yalın, born Hüseyin Yalın in 1980 in Istanbul, is a Turkish pop singer who writes his own songs and rose to fame with his 2004 debut album Ellerine Sağlık.
Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar (song)
"Yalla Erhal Ya Bashar" (يلا إرحل يا بشار) is a Syrian protest song calling on President Bashar al-Assad to leave, sung by demonstrators in 2011.
Yallaferon
Yallaferon (人干扰素α2b凝胶) is a recombinant human interferon α-2b gel marketed by Lee's Pharmaceutical Holdings in China for topical and vaginal treatment of viral infections, including cervical erosion, genital herpes, and condyloma acuminatum.
Yallourn Coal Mine
The Yallourn Coal Mine is an open-cut brown coal mine in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, Australia, owned by EnergyAustralia and serving the adjacent Yallourn Power Station since the 1920s.
Yallourn Power Station
Yallourn Power Station is a brown coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, Australia, owned by EnergyAustralia and scheduled to retire in mid-2028.
Yalo
Yalo is a 2002 novel by the Lebanese writer Elias Khoury, about a young man forced to write his life story under interrogation after the civil war.
Yalode (crater on Ceres)
Yalode is a 260 km diameter impact crater in Ceres's southern hemisphere, the second largest confirmed crater there after Kerwan, named for a Dahomey harvest goddess, with an inner ring, collapsed rim, mascon, and 580 Ma age.
Yalong River
The Yalong River (雅砻江) is a large tributary of the Yangtze that rises in Qinghai, flows through western Sichuan, and hosts a planned 21-dam hydropower cascade totaling 22,650 MW.
Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd.
Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. (雅砻江流域水电开发有限公司) is a state-owned Chinese company, founded in 1989, holding sole responsibility for hydropower development on the Yalong River in Sichuan.
Yalta (Ялта)
Yalta (Ялта) is a resort city on Crimea's southern shore, administrative center of Greater Yalta (pop. 74,652 in 2021). Known for its Mediterranean climate, Livadia Palace and the 1945 Yalta Conference, Massandra wines, and tourism collapse under wartime conditions since 2026.
Yalta Agreement
The Yalta Agreement (雅爾塔協定) was a secret 1945 accord by the US, Soviet Union, and Britain arranging Soviet entry into the war against Japan at China's expense.
Yalta Conference (Ялтинская конференция)
Yalta Conference (Ялтинская конференция), or Crimea Conference, February 4–11, 1945: Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin at Livadia Palace decided Germany's occupation, Soviet entry into the Pacific war, UN Security Council voting, and Poland's government.
Yalu River
The Yalu River (Amnokkang; Yalu Jiang) is a 790 km river forming the western China–North Korea border from Mount Paektu to the sea at Dandong and Sinuiju, fixed by the 1962 border treaty and crossed by the New Yalu River Bridge, opened 2026.
Yalyane Dorsa
Yalyane Dorsa is a 1,200 km ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 7°N, 177°E in the Rusalka Planitia quadrangle, IAU-named in 1997 for a Nenets maiden of light.
Yam (Mongol postal relay)
Yam (یام) was the relay-post system of the Mongol Empire, begun under Chinggis Khan and systematized by Ogedei Khan; in Ilkhanid Iran it carried decrees and envoys until the 1350s.
Yam (polity)
Yam was a land named in Old Kingdom Egyptian texts, visited by the official Harkhuf in the Sixth Dynasty; its location south of Egypt is still debated.
Yam (vegetable)
Yam (Dioscorea spp., Dioscoreaceae) is a tropical monocot vine grown for starchy tubers, domesticated independently in Asia, Africa, and the Americas; West Africa's yam belt produces 97% of African output, led by Nigeria, and US "yam" labels usually mean sweet potato.
Yam Carmel
Yam Carmel (ים כרמל) is an adventure park and outdoor events venue in Ofer Forest, Hof HaCarmel, Israel, between Zichron Yaakov and Haifa, known for its 1-km mountain slide, dry tube bobsled, 100-m zip line, ropes course, and sea-view wedding amphitheater.
Yam Gruel
Yam Gruel (Imogayu) is a 1916 short story by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke about a timid Heian-period samurai whose wish to eat his fill of yam gruel comes true.
Yam Madar (ים מדר)
Yam Madar (ים מדר), born 2000 in Beit Dagan, is an Israeli point guard for Maccabi Tel Aviv and Israel's national team; drafted 47th by Boston in 2020, he starred at Partizan (EuroLeague Rising Star 2023) and never played in the NBA.
Yam Suph (יַם סוּף)
Yam Suph (יַם סוּף), Hebrew for "Sea of Reeds," is the biblical name usually translated "Red Sea" in the exodus narrative; the Septuagint rendered it erythra thalassa, and proposed locations include the eastern Nile Delta lakes, the Gulf of Suez, and the Gulf of Aqaba.
Yam Yau
Yam Yau (任遊), born 2005, Hong Kong ice hockey forward; won men's mixed NOC 3-on-3 gold with Team Green at Lausanne 2020 Winter Youth Olympics, Hong Kong's first winter Olympic medal, and was the city's flagbearer.
Yama (Buddhism)
Yama (閻魔, Enma; 閻羅王, Yanluo wang) is the Buddhist god of death and underworld judge, adopted from the Vedic first mortal, reinterpreted under karma, made fifth of China's Ten Kings, and distinct from Mara.