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... Honan it is a degree or. 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 ) ...
... Honan it is a degree or. 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 ) ...
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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 . On attain- ing power in 1949 , the People's government concentrated attention on public hygiene and preventive medicine . A doctor's training was cut from six to three years , and teams were dispersed throughout the province to ...
... Honan . On attain- ing power in 1949 , the People's government concentrated attention on public hygiene and preventive medicine . A doctor's training was cut from six to three years , and teams were dispersed throughout the province to ...
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