Yelang
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Yelang (Chinese: 夜郎; pinyin: Yèláng) was a minor kingdom in what is today Guizhou, China. This kingdom is noted for a diplomatic farce in which the king of Yelang, who was convinced that his kingdom was the greatest in all the world, inquired rhetorically of the Han emperor's envoy, "Which is greater, Yelang or Han?", thus giving rise to the Chinese idiom "Yelang thinks too highly of themselves" (夜郎自大, Yèláng zì dà).
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