Northern China
Beijing's broader region
Northern China is the northern region of China, typically including provinces like Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and the municipalities of Beijing and Tianjin.
The region is distinguished from southern China by climate, dialect, and culinary traditions: Northern China was the cradle of Chinese civilization, She spent a year teaching in Northern China. (Lowercase northern China treats the phrase as a descriptive term rather than a formal regional name.)
- BeijingChina's seat of government
- TianjinChinese coastal municipality
- ManchuriaNortheastern Chinese region
- Gobi DesertLarge Asian arid region
- Yellow RiverChina's second-longest river
Shandong · Peking opera · noodles · Forbidden City · Beijing duck · dumplings · wheat · cold winters · Loess Plateau · Terracotta Army · Mandarin Chinese · paper cutting · loess · Gobi · millet · ancient capitals · Silk Road · Opium Wars