Landforms of Shaanxi

The Qinling () or Qin Mountains, formerly known as the Nanshan ("Southern Mountains"), are a major east–west mountain range in southern Shaanxi Province, China. The mountains mark the divide between the drainage basins of the Yangtze and Yellow River systems, providing a natural boundary between North and South China and support a huge variety of plant and wildlife, some of which is found nowhere else on earth.

640000 km² plateau around the Wei River valley and the southern half of the Ordos Loop of the Yellow River in central China, covering almost all of Shaanxi and Shanxi and parts of Gansu, Ningxia, and Inner Mongolia

Zhongyuan (, formerly romanized as Chungyuan), the Central Plain(s), also known as Zhongtu (, lit. 'central land') and Zhongzhou (, lit. 'central region'), commonly refers to the part of the North China Plain surrounding the lower and middle reaches of the Yellow River, centered on the region between Luoyang and Kaifeng. It has been perceived as the birthplace of the Chinese civilization. Historically, the Huaxia people viewed Zhongyuan as 'the center of the world'. Human activities in the Zhongyuan region can be traced back to the Palaeolithic period.

waterfall on the Yellow River in China; second largest waterfall in China

mountain range

250px|right|thumb|The Hetao region's three sections:"West Loop" (brown), "Back Loop" (light brown), and "Front Loop" (yellow) Hetao () is a C-shaped region in northwestern China consisting of a collection of flood plains stretching from the banks of the northern half of the Ordos Loop, a large northerly rectangular bend of the Yellow River, that forms the river's entire middle section. The region makes up the northern margin of the Ordos Basin, bounded in the west by the Helan Mountains, the north by the Yin Mountains, the east by the northern portion of Lüliang Mountains, and the south by the

mountain range in Shaanxi, China

plateaus near the Chinese Wei River