Population: 2,255,700
Area: 37,037 square kilometers (14,300 square miles)
Location: in the north of Shaanxi Province, northwest China
Administrative Division: 2 districts (Baota, Ansai); 10 counties (Huangling, Huanglong. Yichuan, Luochuan, Fuxian, Yanchang, Ganquan, Yanchuan, Wuqi); 1 county-level city (Zichang)
Area Code: 0911
Zip Code: 716000
GDP (2019): CNY 166.389 billion (USD 24.118 billion)  

Situated in northern Shaanxi Province on the Loess Plateau, Yan'an overlooks the middle reaches of the Yellow River, the cradle of Chinese Civilization. Yan’an is a well-known Chinese revolutionary holy land as it once was a command center of the China’s Communist Party. Chairman Mao and other revolutionaries lived here and led the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War. Here you can understand the history of modern China and the Communist Party of China. Besides various revolutionary sites, it features the largest waterfall on the Yellow River, Hukou Waterfall. Yan’an also presents wonderful folk arts such as the bold Yan'an waist drum, high-pitched Northern Shaanxi folk songs, exquisite folk paper-cutting, and cheerful Yangko, showing Yan’an people’s positive and optimistic life interest.