Northern China

Shanxi is a province in North China. Its capital and largest city is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-level cities are Changzhi and Datong. Its one-character abbreviation is (), after the state of Jin that existed there during the Spring and Autumn period (). In later periods, Shanxi also became the political core of the Northern Wei, a Xianbei-founded dynasty whose early capital was located in present-day northern Datong. During the Qing dynasty, Shanxi merchants dominated China's commerce and finance. Their commercial networks extended to Russia, Japan, Korea, Central Asia,

geographical region of China

one of the Ten Kingdoms in 10th-century China

thumb|400px|Map of tribes and tribal unions in Ancient China. Yanhuang is shown as Hua Xia Tribal Union in the map. Yanhuang or Yan Huang () was the name of a legendary East Asian ethnic group who were said to have inhabited the middle Yellow River basin in ancient China. The name comes from their alleged descent from two early Bronze Age agrarian tribal confederacies from the Loess Plateau led by the Flame Emperor (Yandi) and Yellow Emperor (Huangdi), whose allied victory over the eastern Jiuli tribes led by the Chiyou at the mythical Battle of Zhuolu has been considered as the foundation for

geographic boundary