Anhui Province referred to as the "Wan" located in the eastern part of the people's Republic of China the people's Republic of China inland province Anhui province and Zhejiang Province Jiangsu Province Shandong Province Henan Province Hubei province and Jiangxi province to the landscape is connected plain hills and low mountains. Roughly between east longitude 114 ° 54 '- 119 ° 37 ′ and north latitude 29 ° 41' - 34 ° 38 ' the East-West width of 450 kilometers about 570 kilometers north and south a total area of 139600 square kilometers accounting for 1.45% of the total area in the East Third twenty-second in the country. Anhui province belongs to the East China area geographically across Huaihe and the Yangtze River north and south showing a significant difference in regional culture mainly divided into: Hui culture the culture and the Central Plains culture; belongs to the central China Economic Zone in the economy. To the provincial capital Hefei city. Anhui Qing Jiangnan province belongs to the Qing Dynasty emperor Kangxi 6 years (AD 1667) Jiangsu Anhui province and south of two provinces and formally established a province Anqing Huizhou and then two house song named after the word.
A Wan Shan Anhui water inside which is now Mount Tianzhu and Anhui river spring and Autumn period has been called the "country known as the" Wan country " so Anhui referred to as" wan".