Places
- Chongqing (渝), the abbreviation for the Chinese municipality
- Henan (豫), the abbreviation for the Chinese province
- Yü (དབུས།, 衛), a geographic division of Tibet
- Yugoslavia, especially,
- Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (old ISO country code and derived ccTLD .yu)
- Yu, a village in Pate, Cambodia
- Yu County, Hebei, in China
- Yu County, Shanxi, in Chinaci
- Yu state, an ancient duchy in what is today China overthrown by Duke Xian of Jin
- Yu River (China), in China
- Yu River (Russia), in Russia
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