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Henan

Henan, Yu for short, is a province located in the Northern Central Region of China. It shares its borders with six other provinces, to the northeast, to the north, to the northwest, to the west, to the south, and to the east.
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Essential Destinations

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is a city on the south bank of Yellow River in China. It is the capital of Henan Province. is a convenient starting point to explore a series of Chinese cultural sites, like , and .

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is an ancient city in , . Steeped in history, draws visitors for its iconic sites: the Longmen Grottoes, White Horse Temple, and Guanlin Temple.

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The ancient city of is on the southern bank of the Yellow River in eastern Henan Province. The capital of several dynasties, with a history of over 4,100 years, it is a vibrant city today.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as North Henan and Central Henan.

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is the northern part of Henan Province, . This part is located north of the Yellow River and relatively industrialized than the average level of Henan.

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is the central part of Henan, . It includes the prefecture-level cities of , and Luohe.

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is the western part of Henan, . It includes the prefecture-level cities of , and .

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is the eastern part of Henan, . It includes the prefecture-level cities of , Zhoukou and .

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is the southern part of Henan Province, . This region has a distinctive Southern China style of climate and culture in the Northern China province of Henan.
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Henan

Latitude of center
34° north
Longitude of center
114° east
Population
99,400,000
Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)
Abbreviation
“豫”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080486
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1808520
Wiki­data ID
Q43684
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Henan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Henan”
  • Achinese: “Propinsi Henan”
  • Afrikaans: “Henan”
  • Arabic: “خنان”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة خنان”
  • Arabic: “هونان”
  • Armenian: “Հենան”
  • Asturian: “Henán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Xenan”
  • Balinese: “Henan”
  • Bashkir: “Хэнань”
  • Basque: “Henan”
  • Basque: “Honan”
  • Belarusian: “правінцыя Хэнань”
  • Belarusian: “Хэнань (правінцыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Хэнань”
  • Bengali: “হনান”
  • Breton: “Henan”
  • Bulgarian: “Хънан”
  • Burmese: “ဟယ်နန်”
  • Burmese: “ဟဲနန်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Henan”
  • Catalan: “Hénán”
  • Catalan: “Honan”
  • Catalan: “Província Henan”
  • Cebuano: “Henan Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھێنان”
  • Chechen: “Хэнань”
  • Chinese: “CN-41”
  • Chinese: “CN-HA”
  • Chinese: “Henan Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Hénán shěng”
  • Chinese: “Hénán”
  • Chinese: “Hô-lâm-séng”
  • Chinese: “Yù”
  • Chinese: “河南”
  • Chinese: “河南省”
  • Chinese: “豫”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Henan”
  • Croatian: “Henan”
  • Czech: “Che-nan”
  • Danish: “Henan”
  • Dutch: “Henan (China)”
  • Dutch: “Henan”
  • Esperanto: “Henan”
  • Esperanto: “Henano”
  • Esperanto: “Provinco Henan”
  • Estonian: “Henan”
  • Estonian: “Henani provints”
  • Finnish: “He’nan”
  • Finnish: “Henan”
  • French: “Henan”
  • French: “Hénán”
  • French: “Ho-nan”
  • French: “Honan”
  • French: “Province de Henan”
  • Galician: “Henan”
  • Gan Chinese: “河南”
  • Gan Chinese: “河南省”
  • Georgian: “ხენანი”
  • German: “Henan”
  • German: “Honan”
  • Greek: “Χενάν”
  • Gujarati: “હેનન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hò-nàm-sén”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hò-nàm”
  • Hebrew: “הנאן”
  • Hebrew: “חנאן”
  • Hindi: “हेनान प्रांत”
  • Hindi: “हेनान प्रान्त”
  • Hindi: “हेनान”
  • Hindi: “होनान”
  • Hungarian: “Henan”
  • Hungarian: “Honan”
  • Icelandic: “Henan”
  • Ido: “Provinco Henan”
  • Indonesian: “Henan”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Henan”
  • Indonesian: “Propinsi Hénán”
  • Indonesian: “Provinsi Henan”
  • Interlingua: “Henan”
  • Irish: “Henan”
  • Italian: “Henan”
  • Italian: “Honan”
  • Japanese: “ホーナン”
  • Japanese: “河南省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “河南省”
  • Kannada: “ಹೆನಾನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Хэнань”
  • Kongo: “Henan”
  • Korean: “하남성”
  • Korean: “허난 성”
  • Korean: “허난”
  • Korean: “허난성”
  • Kurdish: “Henan”
  • Latin: “Honania”
  • Latvian: “Henan”
  • Latvian: “Henaņa”
  • Latvian: “Henaņas province”
  • Literary Chinese: “河南”
  • Literary Chinese: “河南省”
  • Lithuanian: “Henan”
  • Lithuanian: “Henanas”
  • Lombard: “Henan”
  • Macedonian: “Хенан”
  • Malagasy: “Henan”
  • Malay: “Henan”
  • Malay: “Wilayah Henan”
  • Malayalam: “ഹെനാൻ”
  • Maltese: “Henan”
  • Maltese: “Honan”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯦꯅꯥꯟ”
  • Manx: “Henan”
  • Marathi: “हनान”
  • Marathi: “हेनान”
  • Mazanderani: “هنان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ò̤-nàng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hô-lâm-séng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hô-lâm”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰენანი”
  • Mongolian: “Хэнань муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хэнань”
  • Nepali: “हेनान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Henan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Henan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ho-nan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Honan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Henan”
  • Norwegian: “Henan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Henan”
  • Ossetian: “Хэнань”
  • Pampanga: “Henan”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੇਨਾਨ”
  • Persian: “استان هنان”
  • Persian: “هنان”
  • Persian: “هه‌نان”
  • Polish: “Henan”
  • Polish: “Honan”
  • Portuguese: “Henan”
  • Portuguese: “Honã”
  • Portuguese: “Honão”
  • Portuguese: “província de Henan”
  • Quechua: “Henan pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Henan”
  • Romanian: “Honan”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Henan”
  • Russian: “Henan”
  • Russian: “Провинция Хэнань”
  • Russian: “Хэнань”
  • Scots: “Henan”
  • Serbian: “Хенан”
  • Serbian: “河南”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Henan”
  • Sindhi: “ھينان صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හෙනන්”
  • Slovak: “Che-nan”
  • Slovenian: “Henan”
  • Spanish: “Henan”
  • Spanish: “Henán”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Henan”
  • Spanish: “Provincia Henan”
  • Swahili: “Henan”
  • Swedish: “Henan”
  • Swedish: “Honan”
  • Tagalog: “Henan”
  • Tajik: “Хэнан”
  • Tajik: “Ҳенон”
  • Tajik: “Ҳэнан”
  • Tamil: “ஹெய்நான்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெனன்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெனான்”
  • Tatar: “Хенань”
  • Telugu: “హెనాన్”
  • Thai: “Henan”
  • Thai: “Honan”
  • Thai: “มณฑลเหอหนัน”
  • Thai: “มณฑลเหอหนาน”
  • Thai: “เหอหนัน”
  • Thai: “เหอหนาน”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའོ་ནན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའོ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའོ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའོ་ནན།”
  • Tibetan: “ཧོ་ནན་ཞིང་ཆེན་”
  • Turkish: “Henan”
  • Turkish: “Hınan”
  • Uighur: “Xénen Ölkisi”
  • Uighur: “خېنەن ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Хенань”
  • Ukrainian: “Хенань”
  • Urdu: “ہینان”
  • Uzbek: “Xenan”
  • Venetian: “Henan”
  • Vietnamese: “Dự”
  • Vietnamese: “Hà Nam, Trung Quốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Hà Nam”
  • Walloon: “Henan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Henan”
  • Welsh: “Henan”
  • Western Armenian: “Հենան”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہینان”
  • Wu Chinese: “河南省”
  • Yue Chinese: “中原”
  • Yue Chinese: “中州”
  • Yue Chinese: “河南”
  • Yue Chinese: “河南省”
  • Yue Chinese: “豫”
  • Yue Chinese: “豫州”
  • Yue Chinese: “豫省”
  • Zhuang: “Hoznanz”
  • “ma Enan”

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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 “Henan”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.