Kiang-nan

Jiangnan or Jiang Nan (Chinese: ; pinyin: Jiāngnán; Wu: Kaon^平 noe^去; sometimes spelled Kiang-nan, literally "South of the river") is a geographic area in China referring to lands immediately to the south of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, including the southern part of the Yangtze Delta. The region encompasses the Shanghai Municipality, the southern part of Jiangsu Province, the southern part of Anhui Province, the northern part of Jiangxi Province, and the northern part of Zhejiang Province. The most important cities in the area are Anqing, Nanjing, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Wuxi, Suzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo, and Shaoxing.

Jiangnan has long been regarded as one of the most prosperous regions in China due to its wealth in natural resources and very high human development. Many of the people of the region speak Wu Chinese in addition to the national dialect Mandarin.

The word Jiangnan is based on the Chinese name for the Yangtze, Cháng Jiāng, and nán meaning "south." In the 19th century, English speakers also called it Keang-nan.

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