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Wong is the transliteration of 黃 (Huang) (literally meaning "yellow") and 王,汪 (Wang) (literally, "King") in Cantonese Chinese. It is amongst one of the top five most common chinese surname which dated back to ancient time.
Common land
A wong is also a fairly rare term for a piece of common land in England. The term dates back to William the Conqueror and the Domesday Survey. There is an example of a wong in Horncastle in Lincolnshire.
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