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- A province in the central part of the People's Republic of China
- A province in the central part of the Peoples Republic of China
- or Ho-nan conventional Honan Province (pop., 2000 est.: 92,560,000), east-central China. It is bounded by Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Hubei, and Shaanxi. It has an area of 64,500 sq mi (167,000 sq km), and its capital is Zhengzhou. An early civilization there gave rise to the Shang dynasty (18th-12th century BC), the first of several that ruled until AD 936. Kaifeng became the capital under the Northern Song dynasty, which was overthrown by the Mongols in 1127; Zhengzhou then was made the capital. Henan's principal crop is wheat. Henan has large deposits of coal, petroleum, and natural gas, which fuel the economies of its major cities. It is also a railroad transportation hub
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() The name Henan means "south of the (Yellow) River (Huang He). Its one-character abbreviation is 豫 (pinyin: yù), named after Yuzhou Province (豫州 Yù Zhōu), a Han Dynasty province (zhou) that included parts of Henan.Resimler
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