Shaanxi (chn)

Shaanxi

Shaanxi ranks 13,536th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Stekene, Langley, Berkshire, and Nuenen. Memorable people born in Shaanxi include King Wu of Zhou, and Yu Haonan. Memorable people who died in Shaanxi include Zhuge Liang, and Bai Qi. Shaanxi has been the birth place of many politicians, and athletes and the death place of many engineers, and military personnels. Shaanxi is located in China.

Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north, Shanxi and Henan to the east, Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south, and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 km2 (79,151 sq mi) with about 37 million people, the 16th largest in China. Xi'an – which includes the sites of the former Chinese capitals Fenghao and Chang'an – is the provincial capital as well as the largest city in Northwest China and also one of the oldest cities in China and the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals, being the capital for the Western Zhou, Western Han, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties. Xianyang, which served as the Qin dynasty capital, is just north across Wei River. The other prefecture-level cities into which the province is divided are Ankang, Baoji, Hanzhong, Shangluo, Tongchuan, Weinan, Yan'an and Yulin. Read more on Wikipedia