Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A province of east-central China crossed by the Yangtze River. It was made a separate province along with Jiangsu under the Manchu dynasty. Hefei is the capital.
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- proper noun a province in eastern China
Etymologies
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Researchers believe that the rocks containing these fossils, found in southern Anhui Provence, date between 635 million and 580 million years ago.
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Researchers believe that the rocks containing these fossils, found in southern Anhui Provence, date between 635 million and 580 million years ago.
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Although the name Huangshan, which means Yellow Mountain, suggests a single mountain, it is actually an entire mountain range spanning 58 square miles in southern Anhui province, some 300 miles southwest of Shanghai.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Researchers believe that the rocks containing these fossils, found in southern Anhui Provence, date between 635 million and 580 million years ago.
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Earlier that year in China, at least 13 babies died and more than 170 suffered serious malnutrition when they drank fake milk powder in the impoverished eastern province of Anhui, which is one of the seven provinces affected by the current illnesses.
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AFP/Getty Images Chinese migrant workers rested in makeshift tents near a construction site in Hefei, Anhui province, in August 2011.
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Reuters DON'T SLIP: A worker installed scaffolding at a highway viaduct construction site in Hefei, in China's Anhui Province, Wednesday.
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Reuters A laborer threw a pole to a colleague as they raised a scaffold in Hefei, Anhui province, in July 2011.
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Associated Press In this file photo, people use computers at an Internet cafe in Fuyang, in central China's Anhui province.
China Regulator Defends Internet Role Loretta Chao 2011
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Reuters A vendor smoked a cigarette as he sat in front of piles of Chinese watermelons at a market in Hefei, Anhui province, Friday.
Asia in Pictures 2011
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