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Site Chinese name Location Designation Image Yan'an Revolutionary Site: Yan'an geming yizhi 延安革命遗址: Yan'an: 1-23 Rock Carvings and Stone Gate on the Baoxie Road ...
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.
Guanzhong (Chinese: 关中, formerly romanised as Kwanchung) region, also known as the Guanzhong Basin, Wei River Basin, or uncommonly as the Shaanzhong region, is a historical region of China corresponding to the crescentic graben basin within present-day central Shaanxi, bounded between the Qinling Mountains in the south (known as Guanzhong's "South Mountains"), and the Huanglong Mountain ...
Xingqinggong Park (Chinese: 兴庆宫公园) is a city park in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, China. With an area of 743 acres, it is the largest park in Xi'an's city proper. [ 1 ] Meanwhile, Xingqing Palace was a famous palace in the Tang Dynasty and was the center of political gravity during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang ...
The noodles, touted as one of the "eight curiosities" of Shaanxi (陕西八大怪), [1] are described as being like a belt, owing to their thickness and length. Biangbiang noodles are renowned for being written using a unique character. [2] The character is unusually complex, with the standard variant of its traditional form containing 58 strokes.
It was opened to the public on 20 June 1991. The museum is in an area of 65,000 square metres (700,000 sq ft), with a building area of 55,600 square metres (598,000 sq ft), cultural relics storerooms of 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft), exhibition halls of 11,000 square meters, and a collection of 370,000 objects.
In the Yuan Dynasty, the area began to be merged with what is the Guanzhong Plain to form Shaanxi province. The Qinling Mountains, as a geographic barrier, has also created major differences in climate, cultural traditions and dialects between Shaannan and the other parts of Shaanxi, and thus there is some similarity between Shaannan and Sichuan.
Zhouzhi County (simplified Chinese: 周至县; traditional Chinese: 周至縣; pinyin: Zhōuzhì Xiàn) is a county under the administration of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, China. It is the most spacious but least densely populated county-level division of Xi'an, and also contains the city's southernmost and westernmost points.