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The largest lake in northern China, although growing urban and agricultural water use after 1950 reduced its size from more than 1000 km 2 to almost nothing in the 1980s. [ 31 ] [ 32 ] It is presently composed of 143 smaller lakes around 366 km 2 and is used for nature tourism , [ 33 ] but its size is now maintained by unsustainable use of ...
The Yuntai Mountain (simplified Chinese: 云台山; traditional Chinese: 雲台山; pinyin: Yúntāi shān) is situated in Xiuwu County, Jiaozuo, Henan Province of People's Republic of China. The Yuntai Geo Park scenic area is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration .
Henan [a] is a province in Central China. Henan is home to many heritage sites, including Yinxu, the ruins of the final capital of the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1050 BC) and the Shaolin Temple. Four of the historical capitals of China, Luoyang, Anyang, Kaifeng and Zhengzhou, are in Henan. [9]
Central China (Chinese: 华中; pinyin: Huázhōng) is a region in China. It mainly includes the provinces of Henan, Hubei and Hunan. Jiangxi is sometimes also regarded to be part of this region.
South Central China, South-Central China or Central-South China (Chinese: 中南; pinyin: Zhōngnán; lit. 'Central-South'), is a region of the People's Republic of China.It consists of eight provincial administrative regions, namely Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau.
Male migrant workers from Henan were found to earn less than those from Anhui when working in Shanghai. [10] In 2023, Taiwanese singer Rainie Yang joked at a concert in Zhengzhou, Henan that the people of Henan "have a reputation for lying", and she later apologized for the incident. [11] The city of Zhumadian has been singled out especially. [12]
The nation's leading institution for dam design is the Beijing-based China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), [10] somewhat similar to Russia's Hydroproject Institute. Below is a partial list of dams and reservoirs in China that are both operational and under construction.
Hunan is located on the south bank of the Yangtze River, about halfway along its length, situated between 108° 47'–114° 16' east longitude and 24° 37'–30° 08' north latitude. Hunan covers an area of 211,800 square kilometres (81,800 square miles), making it the 10th largest provincial-level division.