Hebei Plain

Japanese: 河北平原 - かほくへいげん
Hebei Plain

...In the oldest geographical book in China, the Yu Gong (a part of the Book of Documents), it belongs to the two prefectures of Kyushu, Ji and Yan, but since most of it was in the Jizhou region, it is still sometimes called Ji Province.
[Nature]
In the flat Hebei Plain, which opens to the southeast, the Taihang Mountains are to the west and the Yanshan Mountains to the north, so the rivers flow from west to east and empty into the Bohai Bay. This plain is an alluvial plain formed by the Yellow River (which once flowed through the southern part of the province into the Bohai Bay), the Hai River, the Luan River, and others, and most of it is below 50 meters above sea level.

*Some of the terminology that refers to the "Hebei Plain" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…中国最古の地理書〈禹貢〉(《書経》の中の一編)では,九州のうち冀(き)・兗(えん)2州に属するが,大部分は冀州の地域だったので,今も冀省と呼ばれることがある。
[自然]
 南東に開けた平たんな河北平原では,西に太行山脈,北に燕山山脈があるので,河流はだいたいに西から東への方向をとって渤海湾に注ぐ。この平原は黄河(かつては本省の南部を通って渤海湾に注いでいたことがある),海河,灤河(らんが)などによってつくられた沖積地で,大部分は標高50m以下である。…

※「河北平原」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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