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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 ]
Shaanxi Radio serves Xi'an and the surrounding Shaanxi province area with music and news. The Story of Yue Fei , a 17th–18th century wuxia novel about the life of Song dynasty general Yue Fei , says his military arts teacher, Zhou Tong , was from Shaanxi.
Yanliang District (simplified Chinese: 阎良区; traditional Chinese: 閻良區; pinyin: Yánliáng Qū) is one of nine districts of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province, China. The northernmost and least-populous [ 2 ] of Xi'an's county-level divisions , it borders the prefecture-level cities of Xianyang to the west and Weinan to the ...
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 ...
The Xi'an City Wall is on the tentative list of UNESCO's World Heritage Site under the title "City Walls of the Ming and Qing Dynasties". Since 2008, it is also on the list of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage of the People's Republic of China. Since March 1961, the Xi'an City Wall is a heritage National Historical and Cultural Unit.
202 BC: Liu Bang, the founding emperor of the Han dynasty, established Chang'an province as his capital; his first palace Changle Palace (長樂宮/长乐宫) was built across the river from the ruin of the Qin capital. This is traditionally regarded as the founding date of Chang'an and Xi'an. 200 BC: Emperor Liu Bang built Weiyang Palace in ...
Yanta District (simplified Chinese: 雁塔区; traditional Chinese: 雁塔區; pinyin: Yàntǎ Qū) is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. The district borders the districts of Weiyang to the north, Lianhu, Beilin and Xincheng to the northeast, and Chang'an to the south.
Xincheng District (simplified Chinese: 新城区; traditional Chinese: 新城區; pinyin: Xīnchéng Qū; lit. 'new city') is one of 11 urban districts of the prefecture-level city of Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi Province, Northwest China. It includes the northwestern part of Xi'an's walled city, as well as a number of neighborhoods to the ...