Henan

[ hœ-nahn ]

noun

, Pinyin.

1. a province in eastern China. 64,479 sq. mi. (167,000 sq. km). : Zhengzhou.
2. former name of Luoyang.

Henan

/ ˈhʌˈnæn /

noun

1. a province of N central China: the chief centre of early Chinese culture; mainly agricultural (the largest wheat-producing province in China). Capital: Zhengzhou. Pop: 96 670 000 (2003 est)

Example Sentences

The employees were arrested in Zhengzhou in Henan province on "breach of trust" charges, Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council said in a statement.

From BBC

Meghan and David Briggs were matched with a boy in Zhengzhou, Henan, in 2020.

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Ms Chen, a 32-year-old who runs a beauty parlour in the central province of Henan, and did not wish to reveal her first name, says she withdraws most of her income from the bank every month and puts it in a box.

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He left his family farm in Henan as a teenager and moved to Dongguan, a city in the southern coastal Guangdong province with so many manufacturers it has become known as the "factory of the world".

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The Nanjing fire comes a month after 13 schoolchildren, aged nine and 10, were killed after a fire broke out in a school dormitory in China's Henan province.

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