Yan'an, alternatively spelled as Yenan is a prefecture-level city in the Shaanbei region of Shaanxi province, China, bordering Shanxi to the east and Gansu to the west.
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11 Facts About Yan'an
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Yan'an was near the endpoint of the Long March, and became the center of the Chinese Communist revolution from late 1935 to early 1947.
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Yan'an was populated at least as early as the Xia Dynasty.
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Yan'an's was in Xi'an at the time and got to Yan'an shortly after the take-over.
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Yan'an was briefly captured in the Battle of Yan'an by the Kuomintang forces in the Chinese Civil War.
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In May 1950, under the People's Republic of China, Yan'an was re-organized as Yan'an District, and was further re-organized as a special district in October.
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Yan'an is located in northern Shaanxi on the Loess Plateau, with a latitude spanning from 35°21' to 37°31' N, and a longitude spanning from 107°41' t0 110°31' E The city is bordered by Yulin to the north, Xianyang, Tongchuan, and Weinan in the Guanzhong region to the south, Linfen and Luliang of Shanxi to the east across the Yellow River, and Qingyang of Gansu to the west across the Ziwu Ridge .
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Yan'an has a humid continental climate that borders on a steppe climate, with cold, dry, and moderately long winters, and hot, somewhat humid summers.
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Yan'an is largely reliant on its secondary sector, which comprises the majority of its GDP as of 2019.
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Yan'an has the second largest cotton production out of all the prefecture-level cities in Shaanxi, behind just Weinan.
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Yan'an is the second largest honey producer in Shaanxi, behind Hanzhong.
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