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Anhui

American  
[ahn-hwee] / ˈɑnˈʰwi /
Older Spelling, Anhwei

noun

Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
  1. a province in E China. 54,015 sq. mi. (139,899 sq. km). Hefei.


Anhui British  
/ ˈænˈweɪ /

noun

  1. a province of E China, crossed by the Yangtze River. Capital: Hefei. Pop: 64 100 000 (2003 est). Area: 139 860 sq km (54 000 sq miles)

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Today, producers are concentrated in the eastern provinces of Shandong and Anhui, where farmers churn out thousands of tons of foie gras by force-feeding ducks and geese to enlarge their livers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

"We've suspected that serotonin was involved in tinnitus, but we didn't really understand how," said co-author Zheng-Quan Tang, Ph.D., of Anhui University in China.

From Science Daily May 15, 2026

In Lu’an, a fourth-tier city in Anhui Province, young couples recently picked up a “smart-kitchen” appliance package via a livestream promotion from a national brand—a category seeing double-digit growth in these markets.

From Barron's Nov. 15, 2025

The country's central region - including provinces like Hebei, Hubei, and Anhui - has borne the brunt of the freezing conditions.

From BBC Feb. 6, 2024

Their centre soon became the city of Hsin-an, a city on the border of Chekiang and Anhui, or in more general terms, the cities in the district of Hui-chou.

From A History of China by Eberhard, Wolfram

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