Huainan
Huainan is a metropolitan area in China
Inhabitants: 1,170,000 (World Rank 396)
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Huainan (Chinese: 淮南; pinyin: Huáinán) is a prefecture-level city with 1,076,000 inhabitants in central Anhui province, People’s Republic of China. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south, Lu’an to the southwest, Fuyang to the west, Bozhou to the northwest, Bengbu to the northeast and Chuzhou to the east.
The name traditionally refers to the entire area south of the Huai River and north of the Yangtze River, which includes the present day central Anhui. The historic political center of the Huainan area lay in Shouchun (present day Shou County).