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Hunan

Chinese province, literally "south of the lake" (Lake Dongting), from hu "lake" + nan "south."

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Hunan

Hunan Province (; Hunanese: Shuangfeng, ; Changsha, ) is a province of the People's Republic of China. It is located in South Central China, south of the middle course of the Yangtze River, and south of Lake Dongting (hence the name Hunan, which means "south of the lake"). Hunan is sometimes called for short and officially abbreviated as "湘" (pinyin: Xiāng), named after the Xiang River which runs through the province.

Hunan borders Hubei Province in the north, Jiangxi Province to the east, Guangdong Province to the southeast, Guangxi Province to the southwest, Guizhou Province to the west, and Chongqing to the northwest. The provincial capital is Changsha.

Usage examples of "hunan".

She bit into a succulent rib and chewed thoughtfully, as though comparing southern barbecue with the Hunan her grandmother made.

Zilin had known this from the moment he left Shanghai for the peasant fields of destitute Hunan, where, his sources told him, Mao had returned after thirteen years, to conclude the process of winning over the populous central provinces to his cause.

Legend had it that a poet-statesman named Chu Yuan had turned himself into an instant folk hero by throwing himself into Lake Dongting in a province now known as Hunan to protest the inhumane policies of the ruling prince.

Today the old man was a power broker, but he could just as easily be shoveling cowshit in Hunan tomorrow.