Anhui Travel Guide
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Anhui Province lies in the heart of eastern China, and in the heart of what the Han Chinese consider the "cradle of Chinese civilization". It is surrounded by provinces that belong to this "cradle" heartland: Shandong to the north; Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the northeast and east, respectively (both being coastal provinces); Jiangxi to the south; Hubei to the west-southwest; and Henan to the west-northwest. Anhui also lies in the southern part of the Yellow River Valley, straddling the Huai River and the Yangtze River, stretching southward beyond the Yangtze River Valley and into the Huang ("Yellow") Mountain Range (oftentimes written as Huangshan Mountain Range, though this contains a redundancy, since shan itself means "mountain"). The prov...[ View Details ]
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