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Yanji
Yanji (延吉市) is the county-level seat of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, eastern Jilin, China, near the North Korean and Russian borders. A Korean-Chinese cultural center and 'little Seoul', it became a wanghong tourism boom city from 2023.
Yanji Dinosaur Kingdom
延吉恐龙王国 (Yanji Dinosaur Kingdom, 연길공룡왕국) is a dinosaur-culture theme park in Yanji, Jilin, China, opened 12 July 2022 by Jindou Group with 2.6 billion yuan invested across four venues and five themed zones on about 50 hectares.
Yanjiao Botanical Garden
Yanjiao Botanical Garden (燕郊植物园), a comprehensive urban botanical garden on Yingbin Road, Sanhe, Langfang, Hebei, near Beijing; about 1,070 mu, renovated from 2004 with a 170-million-yuan plan, seasonal lakes, science hall, and a garden for blind visitors.
Yanjie Chao (晁彦杰)
Yanjie Chao (晁彦杰) is a Chinese molecular microbiologist known for work on bacterial small RNAs, and since 2025 a professor at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica.
Yanjun (Chinese Chan monk)
Yanjun (岩俊, 882–966) was a Chinese Chan monk of the late Tang and Five Dynasties who led the Guanyin Chan Monastery in Luoyang and received the posthumous title Master of Pure Precepts.
Yanka Bryl
Yanka Bryl (Янка Брыль), born Ivan Antonavich Bryl (1917–2006), was a Belarusian prose writer and translator who co-authored I Am from the Fiery Village (1975), a foundation of Belarusian documentary literature.
Yanka Kupala
Yanka Kupala, pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (1882–1942), was a Belarusian poet and playwright, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose collections include Zhaleyka and Guslyar.
Yanka Kupala Museum-Estate
Музей-сядзіба Янкі Купалы (Yanka Kupala museum-estate), Vyazynka, Belarus: branch of the State Literary Museum of Yanka Kupala on the folwark where the poet was born in 1882; buildings restored 1972.
Yanka Sipakou
Yanka Sipakou (Янка Сіпакоў), pen name of Ivan Danilavich Sipakou (1936–2011), was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and translator known for village prose and a Belarusian Divine Comedy.
Yanka Zhurba
Yanka Zhurba (Янка Журба) was the pen name of Belarusian poet, teacher, and translator Ivan Yakavlevich Ivashyn (1881–1964), an older-generation Nasha Niva writer who translated Dostoevsky's Poor Folk in 1930.
Yankee
Yankee: colloquial term for a New Englander, then any northerner, then any American; first attested in Wolfe's 1758 letter as an insult, adopted proudly in 1775, used by Confederates for Union troops; origin unknown, possibly Dutch Janke.
Yankee (2019 TV series)
Yankee (2019 TV series), also known as El Yankee, is a Mexican Netflix crime drama by Argos: 25 episodes, premiered June 14, 2019, starring Pablo Lyle as an Arizona fugitive who becomes a tech-savvy drug lord in Mexico.
Yankee bond
A Yankee bond is a U.S. dollar bond issued inside the United States by a foreign bank, corporation, or government, registered with the SEC for U.S. investors.
Yankee Candle
Yankee Candle is an American brand of premium scented candles, founded by Mike Kittredge in Massachusetts in 1969 and today part of Newell Brands' Home Fragrance division.
Yankee Company (Korean travel platform)
Yankee Company, or Good Choice Company, is a South Korean travel platform company in Seoul whose Yeogi Eotteo app, launched in 2014, became a unicorn in 2022.
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle is an 18th-century marching song, originally a British mockery of colonial troops attributed to surgeon Richard Shuckburgh (c. 1755), adopted by Americans during the Revolution and now Connecticut's state anthem.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 Warner Bros. musical biopic of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, who won the Best Actor Oscar.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's fourth album (2002, Nonesuch; also dated April 16/23), rejected by Reprise, streamed free online from September 18, 2001, debuted at Billboard #13, and remains Wilco's best-selling record.
Yankee Stadium
Yankee Stadium, the Bronx home of the New York Yankees since 1923: the original 'House That Ruth Built' (1923-2008) and the $1.5 billion replacement opened in 2009, host to 26 World Series titles, Gehrig's speech, and NYCFC soccer.
Yankee Stadium (1923)
Yankee Stadium, nicknamed the House that Ruth Built, was the New York Yankees' Bronx ballpark, opened in 1923 and home to 20 World Series titles before its 1973 renovation.
Yankees–Red Sox rivalry
Yankees–Red Sox rivalry: century-old MLB feud between New York and Boston, born from the 1919 Babe Ruth sale; defined by the 1978 Bucky Dent game, 2003 Boone homer, and Boston's 2004 ALCS comeback.
Yanko Rusev
Yanko Rusev (Янко Rusev), a Bulgarian former weightlifter born in 1958, is known for winning the gold medal in the 67.5 kg class at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
Yankton, SD Micro Area
Yankton, SD Micro Area (CBSA 49460) is an OMB-designated micropolitan statistical area covering Yankton County, South Dakota, anchored by Yankton city; about 23,414 residents, 521.2 square miles, median household income $72,821.
Yankuang Energy Group
Yankuang Energy Group (兖矿能源集团股份有限公司) is a state-controlled Chinese energy company that produces coal, chemicals, and power, founded in 1997, listed on six exchanges, and majority owned by Shandong Energy Group.
Yanli Zhao
Yanli Zhao is a Singapore-based materials chemist, professor at Nanyang Technological University and Executive Editor of ACS Applied Nano Materials, known for metal–organic frameworks for drug delivery.
Yanmar
Yanmar (ヤンマー) is a Japanese engine and machinery manufacturer headquartered in Osaka, founded in 1912 and best known for building the world's first commercially viable small diesel engine in 1933.
Yanmar Hanasaka Stadium
Yanmar Hanasaka Stadium (ヤンマーハナサカスタジアム) is the nickname of Nagai Football Stadium in Nagai Park, Osaka, home of Cerezo Osaka; renamed from Yodoko Sakura Stadium on April 1, 2026 under Yanmar naming rights running to June 2031.
Yanmin Yang
Yanmin Yang is a cell biologist and physician-scientist who is Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University, leading the Yang Lab, which studies the neuronal cytoskeleton.
Yann Barrandon
Yann Barrandon, born 1951, is a French dermatologist and stem cell biologist known for locating hair follicle stem cells and helping carry epidermal stem cell therapy to burned patients.
Yann Gael
Yann Gael (born 1986, Garoua, Cameroon) is a French-Cameroonian actor, CNSAD-trained, lead of Sakho & Mangane, Saloum, 1899, Gladiator II, and Hot Milk.