Anyang is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Henan Province, which was called Yin, Yecheng, Ye Jun, Xiangzhou and Zhangde in ancient times. It is located in the northernmost part of Henan province, at the junction of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces.
It is a regional central city in the border areas of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, a city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development zone, with Puyang in the east, Changzhi in the west, Hebi and Xinxiang in the south and Handan in the north, with a total area of 74 13 square kilometers [43].
As of 20 19, Anyang has four districts, 1 county-level city and four counties. According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the resident population of Anyang was 54776 14.
Anyang is one of the centers of early civilization in China, a national historical and cultural city, the hometown of Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the birthplace of Zhouyi.
Zhuan Xu and Di Ku, among the "Three Emperors and Five Emperors" in ancient legends, were built in Diqiu (now Puyang) and Bo (now Shangqiu) and buried here (both in Liangzhuang Town, Neihuang County). During the Three Kingdoms, the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Cao Wei, Hou Zhao, Wei Ran, Yan Qian, Eastern Wei and Northern Qi successively established their capitals here, so Anyang is known as the "Seven Dynasties".