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The Pinglu Canal (Chinese: 平陆运河; pinyin: Pínglù yùnhé), is a 134.2-kilometer inland river I-class waterway under construction between Xijin reservoir on the Yu river in Hengzhou and the lower part of the Qin River, allowing access to the Beibu Gulf. The canal will shorten the route between inland Guangxi and the sea by up to 560 km ...
Pinglu County (simplified Chinese: 平陆县; traditional Chinese: 平陸縣; pinyin: Pínglù Xiàn) is a county in southern Shanxi province of China. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Yuncheng and has a population of approximately 200,000 people. Pinglu is historically an agricultural county, producing apples ...
Pinglu District (simplified Chinese: 平鲁区; traditional Chinese: 平魯區; pinyin: Pínglǔ Qū) is a district of the city of Shuozhou, Shanxi province, China, bordering Inner Mongolia to the northwest.
Pinglu may refer to: Pinglu County, in Shanxi, China; Pinglu District, in Shuozhou, Shanxi, China; Pinglu Canal (平陆运河), under-construction canal in Guangxi
Map of the Shanxi Rift System along the eastern margin of the Ordos Block. Western Henan and southern Shanxi in northern China were struck by an earthquake of estimated magnitude M s 6.8 on 23 October 1815. The epicentre was in Pinglu County in southernmost Shanxi, which was the worse affected area.
Map of the Shanxi Rift System along the eastern margin of the Ordos Block. The Shanxi Rift System or Fen–Wei Rift System [1] is a zone of active extensional tectonics that forms the eastern margin of the Ordos Block in northern China. The zone extends for at least 900 km (560 mi) and runs south-southwest to north-northeast.
Yuncheng is the southernmost prefecture-level city in Shanxi province, People's Republic of China.It borders Linfen and Jincheng municipalities to the north and east, and Henan (Luoyang and Jiyuan to the east, Sanmenxia to the south) and Shaanxi provinces to the east, south and west, respectively.
The Loess Plateau is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust. It is located southeast of the Gobi Desert and is surrounded by the Yellow River. It includes parts of the Chinese provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, Shaanxi and Shanxi. [4]