Difference between revisions of "North China"

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Northern Central Region of China.

Regions

• Henan Province — birthplace of the nation and ancient home to more than 200 emperors from more than 20 dynasties
• Shanxi Province —
• Shandong province
• Hebei province
• Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
• Tianjin
• Beijing

Cities

• Beijing
• Hohhot
• Kaifeng
• Qingdao
• Shijiazhuang
• Taiyuan
• Tianjin
• Zhengzhou — on the south bank of the Yellow River, capital of Henan Province.

Other destinations

• Zhoukoudian - A World Heritage Site and home to the Peking Man.

Understand

This is one of the areas where Chinese civilisation first developed, along the Yellow River.

Talk

As anywhere in China, Mandarin is the lingua franca; nearly everyone can speak it. The Mandarin spoken in this region, especially around Beijing, is the standard dialect. Inner Mongolia naturally has many speakers of Mongolian, but many of them speak Mandarin as well. Russian is fairly common as a second language. As elsewhere in China, English is not widespread but some people speak it quite well.

Get in

Get around

See

Landmarks and buildings

Parks and nature

Museums and exhibitions

Do

Eat

Drink

Stay safe

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