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Also known as: Shaan-hsi, Shen-hsi, Shensi
Written by
Denis C. Twitchett
Gordon Wu Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies, Princeton University. Author of The Writing of Official History Under the T&hamzah;ang; editor of Cambridge History of China.
Denis C. Twitchett,
Victor C. Falkenheim
Emeritus Professor and Former Chairman, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto. Editor of Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China.
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Shaanxi, sheng (province) of north-central China. It is bordered by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north, Shanxi province to the east, Henan and Hubei provinces to the southeast, Chongqing municipality and Sichuan province to the south, Gansu province to the west, and the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia to the northwest. The Huang He (Yellow River) constitutes Shaanxi’s entire eastern border with Shanxi. The capital is Xi’an, in the south-central part of the province. Area 75,600 square miles (195,800 square km). Pop. (2020) 39,528,999. Shaanxi province comprises three distinct natural regions—the mountainous southern region, the Wei River valley, ...(100 of 4774 words)

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