Yuanjiang City (沅江, pinyin: Yuánjiāng) is a county-level city of Hunan province, in China. Pinyin (Chinese: æ¼é³, pÄ«nyÄ«n) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hà nyÇ PÄ«nyÄ«n (æ±è¯æ¼é³, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard... A county-level city (县级市 Pinyin: xiànjí shì) is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. ... Hunan (Chinese: æ¹å; pinyin: ) is a province of China, located in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River and south of Lake Dongting (hence the name Hunan, meaning south of the lake). Hunan is sometimes called æ¹ (pinyin: XiÄng) for short, after the Xiang River which runs through the province. ...
The mountains and hills occupy more than 80% of the area and the plain comprises less than 20% of the whole province.
The Xiangjiang, the Zijiang, the Yuanjiang and the Lishui Rivers converge on the Yangtze River at Lake Dongting (Dongting Hu, 洞庭湖) in the north of Hunan.
The center and northern parts are somewhat low and a U-shaped basin, open in the north and with Lake Dongting as its center.