Definitions for "Henan"
("River South"): Province in east‑central China, 61,800 square miles in area, with a population of 79,690,000. Capital: Zhengzhou (population: 1,580,000). Much of Henan is situated on the broad, flat plain of the Yellow River.
Henan , is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Its one-character abbreviation is 豫 (pinyin: yù), named after Yuzhou Province (豫州 Yù Zhōu), a Han Dynasty province (zhou) that included parts of Henan. The name Henan means "south of the (Yellow) River" (Huang He).