S: (n) Hunan, Hunan province (a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources)
S: (n) Luda, Luta (an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun)
S: (n) Dalian, Talien, Dairen (a port and shipbuilding center in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda)
S: (n) Luoyang, Loyang (a city in east central China; the capital of ancient China during several dynasties)
S: (n) Lushun, Port Arthur (a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda)
S: (n) Hangzhou, Hangchow (a city of eastern China on Hangzhou Bay; regarded by Marco Polo as the finest city in the world)
S: (n) Taiyuan (an ancient city in northeastern China noted for coal mining and steel production)
S: (n) Tangshan (an industrial city of northeastern China in Hebei province)
S: (n) Tianjin, Tientsin, T'ien-ching (a major industrial center in northeastern China on the Grand Canal near the Yellow Sea; 3rd largest city in China)
S: (n) Grand Canal (an inland waterway 1000 miles long in eastern China; extends from Tianjin in the north to Hangzhou in the south)
S: (n) Wuhan (a city of central China on the Chang Jiang; the commercial and industrial center of central China)
S: (n) Xinjiang, Sinkiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people)
S: (n) Inner Mongolia, Nei Monggol (an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911)
S: (n) Hong Kong (formerly a Crown Colony on the coast of southern China in Guangdong province; leased by China to Britain in 1842 and returned in 1997; one of the world's leading commercial centers)
S: (n) Gan Jiang, Kan River (a river in southeastern China that flows generally north into the Chang Jiang to the north of Nanchang)
S: (n) Huang He, Hwang Ho, Yellow River (a major river of Asia in northern China; flows generally eastward into the Yellow Sea; carries large quantities of yellow silt to its delta)
S: (n) Mekong, Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)
S: (n) Nan Ling (a mountain range in southeastern China running generally east to west)
S: (n) Pamir Mountains, the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)
S: (n) Poyang (a lake in central China that is connected to the Chang Jiang by a canal)