Shaanxi

Shaanxi province, China

Shaanxi, Wade-Giles romanization Shen-hsi, conventional Shensi, sheng (province) of north-central China. It is bordered by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north, Shanxi province to the east, Henan and Hubei provinces to the southeast, Chongqing municipality and Sichuan province to the south, Gansu province to the west, and the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia to the northwest. The Huang He (Yellow River) constitutes Shaanxi’s entire eastern border with Shanxi. The capital is Xi’an, in the south-central part of the province. Area 75,600 square miles (195,800 square km). Pop. (2020) 39,528,999.