North China

We treat two adjacent areas together as the Northern Central Region of . One is the historical heartland of the country, along the Yellow River where the Chinese civilization first developed; the other is the more wild and arid territory of to the North and West.
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is China's capital and its second-largest city after , with a population of around 22 million. With a rich history as the capital of Imperial China for much of its past, became the political and cultural heart of the People's Republic of China following the Chinese revolutions.

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is one of the largest cities in China, boasting a population of 14.5 million. It neighbors , with the province of situated between them.

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

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is a province in . Also referred to as Chiloo, The Giant State, and the hometown of Confucius. The name means east of the mountains. is a coastal province situated by the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south.

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, 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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, a province encircling , is home to approximately 75 million residents. Situated at the heart of the expansive and flat Northern China Plain, is predominantly an industrial region overlooked by international tourists.

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, officially known as Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in northern and is the main home of China's ethnic Mongol population.

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is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is , while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are and .

North China

Latitude of center
41.4° or 41° 24′ north
Longitude of center
105.1° or 105° 6′ east
Population
165,000,000
Wiki­data ID
Q1046848
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“North China” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Noord-China”
  • Arabic: “شمال الصين”
  • Asturian: “China del Norte”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimali Çin”
  • Bulgarian: “Северен Китай”
  • Catalan: “Xina del Nord”
  • Chinese: “Hôa-pak”
  • Chinese: “中國華北”
  • Chinese: “华北”
  • Chinese: “华北地区”
  • Chinese: “華北”
  • Chinese: “華北地區”
  • Czech: “Chua-pej”
  • Czech: “Severní Čína”
  • Dutch: “Huabei”
  • Dutch: “Noord-China”
  • Esperanto: “Huabei”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Ĉinio”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Hiina”
  • French: “Chine du Nord”
  • French: “Huabei”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთ ჩინეთი”
  • Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი ჩინეთი”
  • German: “Huabei”
  • German: “Nordchina”
  • Greek: “Βόρεια Κίνα”
  • Hebrew: “צפון סין”
  • Indonesian: “Tiongkok Utara”
  • Italian: “Cina del Nord”
  • Italian: “Cina settentrionale”
  • Japanese: “北支”
  • Japanese: “北支那”
  • Japanese: “華北”
  • Japanese: “華北地方”
  • Korean: “북중국”
  • Korean: “중국 북부”
  • Korean: “중국 화북”
  • Korean: “중국화북”
  • Korean: “화베이”
  • Korean: “화북 지방”
  • Korean: “화북”
  • Korean: “화북지방”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļķīna”
  • Literary Chinese: “華北”
  • Maltese: “Tramuntana taċ-Ċina”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hôa-pak”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Huabei”
  • Norwegian: “Huabei”
  • Persian: “شمال چین”
  • Portuguese: “Norte da China”
  • Portuguese: “Norte”
  • Romanian: “Huabei”
  • Russian: “Север Китая”
  • Russian: “Северный Китай”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Severna Kina”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverna Kina”
  • Slovenian: “Severna Kitajska”
  • Spanish: “China del Norte”
  • Spanish: “China septentrional”
  • Tamil: “வடசீனா”
  • Turkish: “Kuzey Çin”
  • Ukrainian: “Північний Китай”
  • Urdu: “شمالی چین”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Bộ Trung Quốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Trung Quốc”
  • Vietnamese: “Hoa Bắc”
  • Vietnamese: “Miền Bắc Trung Quốc”
  • Welsh: “Gogledd Tsieina”
  • Western Panjabi: “شمالی چین”
  • Wu Chinese: “華北”
  • Yue Chinese: “華北”

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