By Wikipedia BEIJING — An explosion at a coal mine in central China killed 26 miners who were working despite an order to halt production, officials said…
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Henan, is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the eastern central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is 豫, named after Yuzhou Province (豫州 Yù Zhōu), a Han Dynasty province that included parts of Henan. The name Henan means "south of the (Yellow) River" (Huang He). With nearly 100 million people, Henan is the most populous province of China by residency. It borders Hebei to the north, Shandong to the northeast, Anhui to the southeast, Hubei to the south, Shaanxi to the west, and Shanxi to the northwest. Henan is often called Zhongyuan (中原 zhōngyuán) or Zhongzhou (中州 zhōngzhōu), literally "central plains" or "midland"; this name is also broadly applied to the entire North China Plain. Henan is traditionally regarded as an important cradle of Chinese civilization.
