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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]
Xianyang (Chinese: 咸阳; pinyin: Xiányáng) is a prefecture-level city in central Shaanxi province, situated on the Wei River a few kilometers upstream (west) from the provincial capital of Xi'an. Once the capital of the Qin dynasty , it is now integrated into the Xi'an metropolitan area, one of the main urban agglomerations in northwestern ...
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]
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.
Jia County, also known by its Chinese name Jiaxian, is a county in Yulin City, in the north of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Shanxi province across the Yellow River to the east. History [ edit ]
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Shaanxi History Museum, which is located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, ...