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Zones Humides du Littoral du Togo

Zones Humides du Littoral du Togo (Togo Coastal Wetlands), Ramsar site no. 1722: 591,000 ha covering Togo's entire coastline, designated 2007/2008, with Rhizophora and Avicennia mangroves, sea turtles, manatees, and over 85% of national fish production.

Zong Ai

Zong Ai (宗爱) was a Northern Wei eunuch who rose from punished criminal to chief minister, murdered emperors Taiwu and Wenhui Yu, and was executed under Emperor Wencheng.

Zong Bing

Zong Bing (宗炳, 375–443), courtesy name Shaowen, was a Chinese painter, theorist, and lay Buddhist of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties who declined all offers of office.

Zong Chuke

Zong Chuke (宗楚客), courtesy name Shuao, was a Tang dynasty chancellor under Empress Wu and Emperor Zhongzong who led the Empress Wei faction and was executed when the Wei clan fell.

Zong Fuli

Zong Fuli (宗馥莉, also known as Kelly) is a Chinese beverage executive and daughter of Wahaha founder Zong Qinghou, chairwoman of Hangzhou Wahaha Group from August 2024 to September 2025.

Zong massacre

The Zong massacre, also called the Zong Affair, was the killing of about 132 enslaved Africans thrown from the British slave ship Zong in 1781.

Zong Pu

Zong Pu (宗璞) is the pen name of Chinese writer Feng Zhongpu, born 1928, daughter of philosopher Feng Youlan and author of the novel cycle Wild Gourd Prelude.

Zong Qinghou

Zong Qinghou (宗庆后, 1945–2024) was a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Hangzhou Wahaha Group in 1987 and was ranked China's richest person in 2010, 2012, and 2013.

Zong Yuanhan

Zong Yuanhan (宗源瀚, 1834–1897) was a Qing dynasty official from Shangyuan, Jiangsu, who served as a prefect and circuit intendant in Zhejiang and drew a praised Zhejiang map.

Zong Ze

Zong Ze (宗泽, 1059–1128) was a Song dynasty official and general, best known as Dongjing Regent, the defender of Kaifeng during the Jin invasion of the 1120s.

Zongertinib

Zongertinib (Hernexeos, BI 1810631), Boehringer Ingelheim's oral irreversible HER2-selective kinase inhibitor sparing wild-type EGFR; FDA accelerated approval 2025 and 2026 for HER2 TKD-mutant non-squamous NSCLC, ORR 76% first-line in Beamion LUNG-1.

Zongfa (lineage descent system)

Zongfa (宗法制) was the lineage descent system of China's Western Zhou period, which gave the eldest son of the principal wife priority in succession and organized lineages into greater and lesser lines.

Zongfa (patrilineal clan system)

Zongfa (宗法) was the patrilineal lineage system of China's Western Zhou dynasty, fixing succession on the eldest son of the principal wife and dividing descent groups into great and lesser lineages.

Zonghai Li

Zonghai Li (李宗海) is a Chinese biotech entrepreneur who founded CARsgen Therapeutics in Shanghai in 2014 and leads it as chairman, CEO, and chief scientific officer.

Zongle

Zongle (宗泐), courtesy name Jitan, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk who became the leading Buddhist cleric of the early Ming court under the Hongwu emperor.

Zongli Lin

Zongli Lin is a control theorist and Ferman W. Perry Professor at the University of Virginia, known for work on nonlinear and constrained control systems.

Zongli Yamen

The Zongli Yamen (总理衙门) was the late Qing dynasty's central office for foreign affairs, founded in 1861 as China's first foreign office and renamed in 1901.

Zonglingsuo (Regional Fiscal Commissariats)

Zonglingsuo (总领所) were Southern Song fiscal agencies, each headed by a zongling, that supplied money and grain to imperial armies in border regions while supervising military affairs.

Zongmi

Zongmi (宗密), called the Gui Peak Master, was a Tang dynasty Buddhist monk honored as fifth patriarch of the Huayan school and a patriarch of Chan.

Zongmu Technology (纵目科技)

Zongmu Technology (纵目科技) is a Shanghai-based supplier of autonomous parking and ADAS products founded by Tang Rui in 2013, which raised RMB 2.2 billion before suspending operations in 2025.

Zongshu

Zongshu (宗书), also known as Xiaoshan Zongshu, was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Caodong line and abbot of Shaolin Monastery during the Ming dynasty.

Zongteng Group (福建纵腾网络有限公司)

Zongteng Group (Fujian Zongteng Network Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese cross-border e-commerce logistics company headquartered in Fuzhou, founded by Wang Zuan in 2007 and operating the YunExpress parcel brand and GC overseas warehouses.

Zonguldak

Zonguldak, a province and city on Turkey's western Black Sea coast, home of the country's largest hard coal basin (Zonguldak Coal Basin), first Republic-era province (1 April 1924), and the Filyos port project.

Zongzi (粽子)

Zongzi (粽子), also written 糉, is the Chinese glutinous-rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves and eaten at the Dragon Boat Festival; northern versions are sweet, southern savory, with a 2026 Chinese market of about 11.88 billion yuan.

Zoning

Zoning divides a municipality into districts with legal rules on land use, density, and building form. Key facts: NYC 1916 first comprehensive ordinance, Euclid v. Ambler 1926 upheld it, zoning raises housing prices, reform wave since 2020.

Zoning and compartmentalization (animal health)

Zoning and compartmentalization are World Organisation for Animal Health tools that let a country isolate a disease outbreak to a defined animal population and keep trading.

Zonisamide

Zonisamide (Zonegran, Excegran, Trerief) is a 1,2-benzisoxazole sulfonamide antiepileptic drug blocking sodium and T-type calcium channels, approved in Japan in 1989 for epilepsy and later as adjunctive therapy for Parkinson's disease and DLB parkinsonism.

Zonke Dikana

Zonke Dikana, who performs as Zonke, is a South African singer-songwriter and producer known for the multi-platinum Ina Ethe (2011) and the SAMA-winning Work of Heart (2015).

Zonotope

A zonotope is a convex polytope expressible as the Minkowski sum of finitely many line segments, equivalently a linear projection of a higher-dimensional cube; every face is centrally symmetric.

Zonotrichia

Zonotrichia (crowned sparrows), genus of five large American sparrows in Passerellidae: white-crowned, golden-crowned, Harris's, white-throated, and rufous-collared sparrows; studied for plumage status signalling, a white-throated sparrow supergene, and winter sociality.