Henan

Henan Province
	Henan Province
Cheenese :	河南省
	Hénán Shěng
	Abbreviations: 豫 (pinyin: Yù)
Oreegin o name	河 hé - (Yellow) River; 南 nán - sooth; "sooth o the Yellae River"
Admeenistration type	Province
Caipital; (an lairgest ceety)	Zhengzhou
CPC Ctte Secretary	Lu Zhangong 卢展工
Governor	Guo Gengmao 郭庚茂
Aurie	167,000 km2 (64,000 sq mi) (17t)
- Latitude	31° 23' tae 36° 22' N
- Longitude	110° 21' tae 116° 38' E
Population (2010); - Density	94,023,567 (3rd); 591 /km2 (1,530 /sq mi) (6t)
GDP (2011); - per caipita	CNY 2.70 trillion; US$ 427 billion (5t); CNY 24,719; US$ 3,611 (21t)
HDI (2008)	0.787 (medium) (15t)
Ethnic composition	Han - 98.8%; Hui - 1%
Leids an dialects	Mandarin, Henan
Prefectural level	17 diveesions
Coonty level	159 diveesions
Tounship level*	2455 diveesions
ISO 3166-2	CN-41
	Offeecial wabsteid; www.henan.gov.cn (Simplifeed Cheenese)
	Source for population and GDP data: 《中国统计年鉴—2005》 China Statistical Yearbook 2005; ISBN 7503747382 Source for nationalities data: 《2000年人口普查中国民族人口资料》 Tabulation on nationalities of 2000 population census of China; ISBN 7105054255 *As at December 31, 2004
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No tae be ramfeeselt wi the unrelatit province o Hunan or the Swadish locality o Henån.

Henan (Cheenese: 河南; pinyin: Hénán; Wade–Giles: Ho-nan), is a province o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, locatit in the central pairt o the kintra. Its ane-character abbreviation is "豫" (yù), namit efter Yuzhou (豫州 Yù Zhōu), a Han Dynasty state (zhou) that includit pairts o Henan. Although the name o the province (河南) means "sooth o the river",^[1] approximately a quairter o the province lees north o the Yellae River, kent as the "Huang He" an aw.

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Thare's a hail sicht mair anent Henan at Wikimedia Commons.