Sanmenxia is a prefecture-level city within Henan province of the Chinese, with 260,000 inhabitants (as of 1999). Sanemnxia is in the Northwest of the province, close to Shanxi province. A prefecture-level city (地级市 Pinyin: d , literally region-level city) or prefecture-level municipality is an administrative division of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Henan (Chinese: æ²³å; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ho-nan), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Shanxi (Chinese: 山西; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Shan-hsi; Postal System Pinyin: Shansi) is a northern province of the Peoples Republic of China. ...
The Sanmenxia area of Henan Province is located along the middle section of the Yellow River and consists mainly of highland and mountain areas.
In Henan Provinces Sanmenxia Municipality, 2.2 million or 72% of the Municipality resident population depend on agriculture for a living.
Sanmenxia is located in the transition zone from the North China Plain to the Loess Plateau, and its sloped areas are complexly fragmented, with most production taking place on small scale plots on slopes, terraces, and riverside areas.
Sanmenxia (Simplified Chinese: 三门峡; pinyin: Sānménxiá) is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province, People's Republic of China.
The westernmost prefecture-level city in Henan, Sanmenxia borders Luoyang to the east, Nanyang to the southeast, and the province of Shanxi on all other sides.
The prefecture-level city of Sanmenxia administers 1 district, 2 county-level cities and 3 counties.