Shanxi

Shanxi Province
	Shanxi Province
Cheenese :	山西省
	Shānxī Shěng
	Abbreviations: (pinyin: Jìn)
Oreegin o name	山 shān - mountain; 西 xī - west; "wast o the Taihang Muntains"
Admeenistration type	Province
Caipital; (an lairgest ceety)	Taiyuan
CPC Ctte Secretary	Yuan Chunqing
Governor	Wang Jun
Aurie	156,800 km2 (60,500 sq mi) (19t)
- Latitude	34° 35' to 40° 44' N
- Longitude	110° 13' to 114° 33' E
Population (2010); - Density	35,712,111 (18t); 213 /km2 (550 /sq mi) (19t)
GDP (2011); - per caipita	CNY 1110.0 billion; US$ 176.2 billion (21st); CNY 26,283; US$ 3,883 (17t)
HDI (2008)	0.800 (high) (14t)
Ethnic composition	Han - 99.7%; Hui - 0.2%
Leids an dialects	{{{Dialects}}}
Prefectural level	11 diveesions
Coonty level	119 diveesions
Tounship level*	1388 diveesions
ISO 3166-2	CN-14
	Offeecial wabsteid; www.shanxigov.cn (Chinese)
	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 neehbourin province o Shaanxi.

Shanxi^? (Cheenese: 山西; ; Postal map spelling: Shansi) is a province o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, locatit in the North Cheenae region. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" (pinyin: Jìn), efter the state o Jin that existit here durin the Ware an Hairst Period.

The name Shanxi literally means "muntain's wast", which refers tae the province's location wast o the Taihang Muntains.^[1] Shanxi borders Hebei tae the east, Henan tae the sooth, Shaanxi tae the wast, an Inner Mongolie tae the north an is made up mainly o a plateau bundit pairtly bi muntain ranges. The caipital o the province is Taiyuan.