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Shaanxi [a] is a province in Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi and Henan to the east, Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south, and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 km 2 (79,000 sq mi) with about 37 million people, the 16th-largest in China.
Xi'an [a] is the capital of the Chinese province of Shaanxi.A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong plain, [4] the city is the third-most populous city in Western China after Chongqing and Chengdu, as well as the most populous city in Northwestern China. [5]
Western China. Western China (中国西部 or 华西) is the west of China.It consists of Southwestern China and Northwestern China.In the definition of the Chinese government, Western China covers six provinces (Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai), three autonomous regions (Tibet, Ningxia, and Xinjiang), and one direct-administered municipality ().
It includes parts of the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi. [4] The depositional setting of the Chinese Loess Plateau was shaped by the tectonic movement in the Neogene period, after which strong southeast winds caused by the East Asian Monsoon transported sediment to the plateau during the Quaternary period. [5]
Location of Shaanxi province in China. This is a list of township-level divisions of the province of Shaanxi, People's Republic of China. After province, prefecture, and county-level divisions, township-level divisions constitute the formal fourth-level administrative divisions of the PRC. This list is divided first into the prefecture-level ...
Shaanxi, a province of the People's Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions. Administrative divisions These ...
Shanxi borders Hebei to the east, Henan to the south, Shaanxi to the west and Inner Mongolia to the north. Shanxi's terrain is characterised by a plateau bounded partly by mountain ranges. Shanxi's culture is largely dominated by the ethnic Han majority, who make up over 99% of its population.
Shaannan (simplified Chinese: 陕南; traditional Chinese: 陝南; pinyin: Shǎnnán) or Southern Shaanxi refers to the portion of China's Shaanxi province south of the Qinling Mountains. Its name derives from the province's abbreviation "Shaan" ( 陕 ) combined with the word "Nan" ( 南 , lit. "south"), its geographical location within the ...