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... Honan. The western highlands Honan Honan ( Ho - nan in Wade - Giles romanization , Henan in Pinyin ) , a small province in the north central part of China , has an area of 64,700 square miles ( 167,700 square kilometres ) . The province ...
... Honan. The western highlands Honan Honan ( Ho - nan in Wade - Giles romanization , Henan in Pinyin ) , a small province in the north central part of China , has an area of 64,700 square miles ( 167,700 square kilometres ) . The province ...
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... Honan is therefore more subject to years of alternating heavy rain and drought than the provinces of the Yangtze Valley . In the past it has suffered from severe famine . It also experi- ences spring cloudbursts and occasional ...
... Honan is therefore more subject to years of alternating heavy rain and drought than the provinces of the Yangtze Valley . In the past it has suffered from severe famine . It also experi- ences spring cloudbursts and occasional ...
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... Honan , it serves it poorly as a line of communica- tion . Within the province it was navigable only in the San- men Gorge until the construction of the dam there . Even now it is useful over the plain only for small rivercraft . The ...
... Honan , it serves it poorly as a line of communica- tion . Within the province it was navigable only in the San- men Gorge until the construction of the dam there . Even now it is useful over the plain only for small rivercraft . The ...
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CHINA | 36 |
CHINESE LITERATURE | 231 |
CHORDATES CHRISTIANITY | 251 |
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