Shangqiu

Shangqiu, city, eastern Henan sheng (province), east-central China. Situated in the middle of the North China Plain, it lies at the junction of the north-south route from Jinan in Shandong province to the central section of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) and the routes from Zhengzhou and northwestern China to Xuzhou in the east and farther southeast to Nanjing. Two places were called Shangqiu before they were merged to create a prefecture-level city in 1997—the...