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Anhui

Anhui is a province in the southern central region of . Historically, it is a relatively poor agricultural province, and over the past few decades it has been one of the main suppliers of cheap migrant labour to more prosperous coastal provinces, especially in nearby .
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is the capital city of Anhui Province in . It is an industrial, administrative and commercial centre bare of any special attractions. It is not often visited by foreign tourists, who mostly use it as a hub for trips into the hinterland of Anhui.

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is in Anhui Province in , toward the southern end near the border with . It is on the UNESCO World Heritage List. There is also a city to the south and a district to the north.

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is a city in Anhui Province in . Many Chinese say there's not much to do here, but with a nice food street and proximity to larger cities like and , it's worth a day trip.

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is a city in northern Anhui Province, China. Its population was 3,296,408 registered residents at the 2020 census. 1,968,027 lived in the built-up area made of four urban districts and Fengyang County in Chuzhou Prefecture, largely being conurbated.

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Ma'anshan is a beautiful modern city in the downstream of the Yangtze River. It ranks among the wealthiest cities in Anhui Province. The city only gained town status in 1956, but is now home to over 2.2 million people.

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, located in southern Anhui Province, China, is a prefecture-level city on the southern bank of the Yangtze River. Known as the “Copper Capital of China,” it boasts a 3,500-year history of copper mining and is one of the country’s earliest copper production bases.

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is a village in Yixian County, Anhui. is the China you think of when you think of ancient China. Imagine an old man stroking his wispy grey beard while smoking a long thin pipe and this is where he probably lives.

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is a village in Anhui Province in . Together with , it is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List as "Ancient Villages in Southern Anhui".

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is a sacred Buddhist mountain in the southwestern part of Qingyang County, Chizhou City, Anhui Province, .
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Anhui

Latitude of center
32° north
Longitude of center
117° east
Population
61,000,000
Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)
Abbreviation
“皖”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244075779
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1818058
Wiki­data ID
Q40956
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Anhui” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Anhui”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Anhui”
  • Afrikaans: “Anhui”
  • Arabic: “آنهوي”
  • Arabic: “أنهواي”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة آنهوي”
  • Armenian: “Անհոյ”
  • Armenian: “Անհուեյ”
  • Asturian: “Anhui”
  • Azerbaijani: “Anhoy”
  • Balinese: “Anhui”
  • Basque: “Anhui”
  • Belarusian: “Анхой”
  • Belarusian: “Аньхой”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Аньхой”
  • Bengali: “আনহুয়েই”
  • Betawi: “Anhui”
  • Bosnian: “Anhuej”
  • Bosnian: “Anhui”
  • Breton: “Anhui”
  • Bulgarian: “Анхой”
  • Bulgarian: “Анхуей”
  • Burmese: “အန်းဟွေးပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Angwei”
  • Catalan: “Anhui”
  • Catalan: “Nanghuei”
  • Cebuano: “Anhui Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئانھوی”
  • Chechen: “Аньхой”
  • Chinese: “An-hui-séng”
  • Chinese: “Anhui Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Ānhuī”
  • Chinese: “安徽”
  • Chinese: “安徽省”
  • Chinese: “皖”
  • Chinese: “皖省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Anhui”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Anhuy”
  • Croatian: “Anhui”
  • Czech: “An-chuej”
  • Danish: “Anhui”
  • Dutch: “An-hwei”
  • Dutch: “An-hwéi”
  • Dutch: “An-hwi”
  • Dutch: “Anhui”
  • Dutch: “Anhwi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “انهوى”
  • Esperanto: “Anhui-provinco”
  • Esperanto: “Anhui”
  • Esperanto: “Anhujo”
  • Estonian: “Anhui”
  • Finnish: “Anhuei”
  • Finnish: “Anhui”
  • French: “Anhui”
  • French: “Ānhuī”
  • French: “Ngan-hoei”
  • French: “Ngan-hoeï”
  • French: “Nganhoei”
  • French: “Nganhoeï”
  • French: “Province d’Anhui”
  • Galician: “Anhui”
  • Galician: “Provincia de Anhui”
  • Gan Chinese: “安徽”
  • Gan Chinese: “安徽省”
  • Georgian: “ანხუეი”
  • German: “Anhui”
  • German: “Anhwei”
  • German: “CN-34”
  • Greek: “Ανουί”
  • Greek: “Ανχουέι”
  • Greek: “Ανχουί”
  • Gujarati: “અનહુઇ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ôn-fî-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ôn-fui-sén”
  • Hebrew: “אנחווי”
  • Hindi: “अनहुइ”
  • Hindi: “अंहुइ”
  • Hindi: “अंहुई”
  • Hungarian: “Anhui”
  • Hungarian: “Anhuj”
  • Icelandic: “Anhui”
  • Ido: “Provinco Anhui”
  • Indonesian: “Anhui”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Anhui”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Ānhuī”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Anhui”
  • Interlingua: “Anhui”
  • Irish: “Anhui”
  • Italian: “Anhui”
  • Japanese: “安徽”
  • Japanese: “安徽省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “安徽省”
  • Japanese: “皖”
  • Kannada: “ಅನ್ಹುಯಿ”
  • Kazakh: “Аньхой”
  • Kongo: “Anhui”
  • Korean: “안후이 성”
  • Korean: “안후이”
  • Korean: “안후이성”
  • Korean: “안휘 성”
  • Korean: “안휘”
  • Korean: “안휘성”
  • Kurdish: “Anhui”
  • Latin: “Anhui”
  • Latvian: “Aņhui province”
  • Latvian: “Anhui”
  • Latvian: “Aņhui”
  • Literary Chinese: “安徽”
  • Literary Chinese: “安徽省”
  • Literary Chinese: “徽”
  • Literary Chinese: “徽省”
  • Literary Chinese: “皖”
  • Literary Chinese: “皖省”
  • Lithuanian: “Anhui”
  • Lithuanian: “Anhujus”
  • Lombard: “Anhui”
  • Macedonian: “Анхуеј”
  • Malagasy: “Anhui”
  • Malay: “Anhui”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Anhui”
  • Malayalam: “ആൻഹുയി”
  • Maltese: “Anhui”
  • Manipuri: “ꯑꯟꯍꯨꯢ”
  • Manx: “Anhui”
  • Marathi: “आंहुई”
  • Marathi: “आंह्वी”
  • Mazanderani: “آن‌هوئی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ăng-hŭi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “An-hui-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “An-hui”
  • Mingrelian: “ანჰოი”
  • Mongolian: “Аньхуй муж”
  • Nepali: “आन्हुई”
  • Newari: “अनहुइ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Anhui”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Anhui”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Anhwei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Anhui”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Anhwei”
  • Norwegian: “Anhui”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Anhui”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Anhui”
  • Ossetian: “Аньхой”
  • Pampanga: “Anhui”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਨਹੁਈ”
  • Persian: “آن هوئی”
  • Persian: “آن هویی”
  • Persian: “آن‌هوئی”
  • Persian: “آن‌هوی”
  • Persian: “آن‌هویی”
  • Persian: “ان هوئی”
  • Persian: “ان هویی”
  • Persian: “ان‌هوئی”
  • Persian: “ان‌هویی”
  • Polish: “Anhuej”
  • Polish: “Anhui”
  • Portuguese: “Anhui”
  • Portuguese: “província de Anhui”
  • Quechua: “Anhui pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Anhui”
  • Russian: “Анхой”
  • Russian: “Анхуй”
  • Russian: “Аньхой”
  • Russian: “Аньхуй”
  • Russian: “Аньхуэй”
  • Scots: “Anhui”
  • Serbian: “Анхуеј”
  • Serbian: “Анхуи”
  • Serbian: “安徽”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Anhuej”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Anhui”
  • Sindhi: “اينھئي صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “අන්හුයි”
  • Slovak: “An-chuej”
  • Slovenian: “Anhui”
  • Slovenian: “Anhuj”
  • Spanish: “Anhui”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Anhui”
  • Swahili: “Anhui”
  • Swedish: “An-huei”
  • Swedish: “An-hui”
  • Swedish: “An-hwei”
  • Swedish: “Anhui”
  • Swedish: “Ānhuī”
  • Swedish: “Anhwei”
  • Swedish: “Ngan-hui”
  • Tagalog: “Anhui”
  • Tajik: “Анҳуй”
  • Tamil: “அன்ஹுயி மாகாணம்”
  • Tamil: “அன்ஹுய்”
  • Telugu: “అన్హూయి”
  • Thai: “มณฑลอันฮุย”
  • Thai: “มณฑลอานฮุย”
  • Thai: “อันฮุย”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཧུའི་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཧུའི་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཧུའི།”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཧུའེ་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཨན་ཧུའེ་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Anhui”
  • Uighur: “Enxuy Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “ئەنخۇي ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Анхой”
  • Ukrainian: “Аньхой”
  • Ukrainian: “Аньхуі”
  • Ukrainian: “Аньхуй”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Аньхой”
  • Urdu: “انہوئی”
  • Uzbek: “Anxoy”
  • Uzbek: “Anxuey”
  • Venetian: “Anhui”
  • Vietnamese: “An Huy”
  • Vietnamese: “Tỉnh An Huy”
  • Walloon: “Anhoui”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Anhui”
  • Welsh: “Anhui”
  • Western Armenian: “Անհոյի”
  • Western Panjabi: “انہوئی”
  • Wu Chinese: “安徽”
  • Wu Chinese: “安徽省”
  • Wu Chinese: “皖”
  • Wu Chinese: “皖省”
  • Yue Chinese: “安徽”
  • Yue Chinese: “安徽省”
  • Yue Chinese: “皖”
  • Yue Chinese: “皖省”
  • Zhuang: “Anhveih”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Anhui”. Photo: Davidmcbride, CC BY-SA 3.0.