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- Autonomous Region—a Hui autonomous region of the People's Republic ... Ningxia, a stop along the Silk Road, had been influenced by Islam ...15 KB (2,041 words) - 04:50, 15 November 2022
- ; also spelled Kweichow) is a province of the People's Republic ... Guizhou sat on the fringe of the Chinese empire until the Ming dynasty ...15 KB (2,085 words) - 08:18, 8 January 2024
- This is a list of the countries of the world by continent, according ... * Sovereign states (country names in bold), consisting of: ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 04:26, 29 October 2022
- ; Postal map spelling: Shensi) is a province of the People's ... tone marks are not written, both Shaanxi and the neighboring province of Shanxi ...15 KB (2,046 words) - 10:15, 26 January 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), is a province of ... Jilin has played an integral part in both the history of China and ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- Qinghai is a province of the People's Republic of China located ... Qinghai, a province remote to the centers of power in China and newly ...18 KB (2,519 words) - 04:02, 7 December 2022
- :This article is about the former administrative divisions of China. The Eight Banners (In Manchu: [[Image:jakūn gūsa.png|jakūn gūsa|20px]] ...12 KB (1,892 words) - 00:04, 13 February 2024
- ; Postal map spelling: Ngan-hui, Anhwei or An-hwei) is a province ... Anhui, although formally a separate province from the seventeenth ...19 KB (2,812 words) - 06:03, 28 July 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Hupeh) is a central province of the People ... ), after the powerful state of Chu that existed here during the Eastern ...22 KB (3,092 words) - 21:04, 7 February 2024
- ) is a province of China located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze ... Hunan borders Hubei to the north, Jiangxi to the east, Guangdong to ...18 KB (2,479 words) - 12:20, 4 February 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsi) is a southern province of the People ... Jiangxi had served as a main trade route in ancient and Medieval China ...21 KB (3,089 words) - 20:39, 3 April 2024
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on ... means mountains' east, which refers to the province's location east ...23 KB (3,360 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... Gansu has a unique role in China. Sitting on the terminus of the Silk ...21 KB (2,969 words) - 04:27, 18 April 2024
- Jeju-do (transliterated Korean for Jeju Province, short form of Jeju ... For most of the island's history, Jeju-do had little contact ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located along ... dramatic upsurge in its economy and standard of living during the twentieth ...22 KB (3,044 words) - 05:58, 13 June 2023
- ) is the smallest province of the People's Republic of China ... Hainan island was called the Pearl Cliffs (珠崖 Zhūyá), Fine Jade ...25 KB (3,616 words) - 16:53, 21 January 2024
- Guangdong (formerly spelled "Kwangtung") is a province on ... Guangdong, located remote from the centers of power in Chinese civilization ...24 KB (3,310 words) - 02:43, 5 March 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province of the People's ... #039; west," which refers to the province's location west ...23 KB (3,285 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2023
- ) is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... name for this region, had been adopted by the Liao Dynasty (Khitan Empire ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- ; Postal map spelling: Tientsin) is one of four municipalities of ... The urban area of Tianjin is located along the Haihe River, and is ...29 KB (3,826 words) - 23:22, 30 April 2023
- and Szechuan) is a province in western China. It borders quite a few different ... Sichuan, the home of ancient civilizations and ethnic groups, sits ...21 KB (2,859 words) - 14:31, 27 January 2023
- Wade-Giles: Ch'ung-ch'ing) is the largest and most populous ... Located on the edge of the Yungui Plateau, Chongqing is intersected ...30 KB (3,987 words) - 17:18, 10 December 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... Jiangsu has a coastline that extends over a thousand kilometers along ...28 KB (3,971 words) - 20:38, 3 April 2024
- known as Pusan (Pusan; 부산; 釜山), is the largest port city in the Republic ... Busan became Korea’s first international port in 1876. Busan was ...19 KB (2,764 words) - 03:33, 7 December 2022
- ), is a province of the People's Republic of China located in ... With nearly 100 million people, Henan is the most populous province ...27 KB (3,852 words) - 17:21, 7 February 2022
- Guangzhou is the capital and the sub-provincial city of Guangdong ... The site of Guangzhou has been continuously occupied since Panyu ...22 KB (2,966 words) - 03:09, 5 March 2023
- ; Postal map spelling: Hopeh) is a province of the People's Republic ... It borders Liaoning to the northeast, Inner Mongolia to the north ...26 KB (3,622 words) - 15:13, 25 January 2023
- ; literally "south of the clouds") is a province of the ... Yunnan has earned fame for the natural beauty of its setting from ...27 KB (3,822 words) - 10:26, 7 June 2023
- Nan or Taiwanese Hok-kiàn) is a province of China located on the southeast ... as an education center and pristine nature. The ecology of the province has ...31 KB (4,438 words) - 07:14, 15 April 2024
- ; also romanized as Nei Mongol) is a Mongol autonomous region of the ... The official languages of Inner Mongolia are Standard Mandarin and ...33 KB (4,665 words) - 19:29, 5 March 2024
- Seoul, the capital of South Korea, sits on the Han River (Korea) in ... Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated major cities ...25 KB (3,283 words) - 19:52, 6 March 2024
- Xinjiang is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of ... quot;New Frontier," a name given during the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China ...28 KB (3,367 words) - 14:31, 20 May 2023
- Shenzhen is a sub-provincial city of Guangdong province in southern ... The one-time fishing village of Shenzhen was singled out by late Chinese ...24 KB (3,404 words) - 19:58, 21 April 2023
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island nation in the Windward ... The islands' proximity to South America has influenced its culture ...18 KB (2,550 words) - 00:56, 23 December 2022
- Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980) was ... to maintain national unity or to resolve the ongoing dispute with India ...20 KB (3,141 words) - 10:02, 22 May 2023
- Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country ... The country is infamous for the 1994 genocide that resulted in the ...25 KB (3,542 words) - 17:40, 28 September 2023
- military official and politician during the late Qing Dynasty and the ... Yuan is criticized in Chinese culture for taking advantage of both ...25 KB (3,814 words) - 21:35, 4 June 2023
- The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville or the ... offshore reserves has supplanted forestry as the mainstay of the economy, which ...23 KB (3,296 words) - 19:42, 16 April 2023
- Oirat (Oirads, Oyirads, Oirots) is the common name of several pastoral ... From the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries the Kalmyk-Oirats numbered ...17 KB (2,618 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- Myanmar - swift and strong (from the native words, myan meaning swift ... this nation is the largest in Southeast Asia, and has a population ...33 KB (4,741 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- The Long March ( t=長征|s=长征|p=Chángzhēng ) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the ...32 KB (4,903 words) - 07:52, 9 March 2023
- Mayotte is an overseas department and region of France consisting ... Mayotte is located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in ...19 KB (2,667 words) - 09:21, 10 March 2023
- located in East Asia with a population of nearly three million. Mongolia ... Mongolia was the center of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...29 KB (4,266 words) - 23:52, 3 December 2023
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country ... Yet the nation is on the verge of collapse. Under the leadership of ...26 KB (3,749 words) - 06:06, 13 June 2023
- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- Réunion is an island, located in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar ... It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which are volcanic in origin; ...22 KB (3,300 words) - 00:08, 22 August 2022
- ; a metropolis in northern China, is the capital of the People's ... Since its establishment in 723 B.C.E., Beijing has served as the capital ...59 KB (8,054 words) - 10:27, 26 September 2023
- ) is the capital of Hubei province, and is the most populous city ... Wuhan is a major transportation hub, with dozens of railways, roads ...37 KB (5,359 words) - 14:07, 20 May 2023
