anhui

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a province in eastern China
or An-hui conventional Anhwei Province (pop., 2000 est.: 59,860,000), east-central China. It is bounded by Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan provinces. With an area of 54,000 sq mi (139,900 sq km), it is one of China's smallest provinces; its capital is Hefei. Anhui was the first part of southern China to be settled by the Han dynasty, in the later part of the 1st millennium BC. Well-watered by the Huai and Yangtze (Chang) rivers, it was the empire's major agricultural area for several centuries. Anhui was ruled by the Ming dynasty in the 14th-17th centuries. It was occupied by the Japanese in World War II; after the war, the Nationalists held it briefly before the communists took over. It is a notable agricultural producer