Henan is the center, bordering Anhui Province and Shandong Province in the east, Hebei Province and Shanxi Province in the north, Shaanxi Province in the west and Hubei Province in the south.

Henan province is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River in the south of North China Plain. Geographical coordinates: east longitude 1 10 west longitude 2 1', east longitude 1 16 39', spanning longitude 6 18', with a straight line distance of about 580 kilometers; It spans 4 59' from 3123' south latitude to 36 22' north latitude, and the linear distance is about 550 kilometers. Shandong and Anhui in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Hebei and Shanxi in the north and Hubei in the south; The land area is 6.5438+0.67 million square kilometers.

Extended data

1.？ Refers to the area south of the Yellow River. The specific scope is wide and narrow, and each is different.

"Zhou Li Xiaguan Zhi Fang": "Yuzhou is famous in the south of the Yangtze River." Wang Mingchang's "The National Meaning of Zhenze Yulong": "Since the Zhou Dynasty, the only capitals in the south of the Yangtze River are Chang 'an and Luoyang." The second chapter of Lu Xun's Outline of the History of Chinese Literature: "Among the fifteen countries,,, Wang, Qi, Chen and Zheng are in southern Henan. "

2.？ The Qin and Han dynasties were called the area south of Hetao today.

Biography of Meng Tian in Historical Records: "Qin has already arrived in world cooperate, which made Meng Tian drive 300,000 people from the north to Rongdi and take Jiangnan." Zhang Shoujie's justice: "It is said that spirit is better than state." Zhang Tang said that "Going to the North Army should be done" poem: "South of the Hanbao River, Hu Qing fills the dust in the north."

3.？ Save the name, not Yu. Zhengzhou, the provincial capital.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Henan