Hefei (Chinese: �肥; Hanyu Pinyin: Héféi; Wade-Giles: Hofei) is a prefecture-level city and the provincial capital of Anhui province, China. Located in central Anhui, it borders Huainan to the north, Chuzhou to the northeast, Chaohu to the southeast and Lu'an to the west.
The city was known as Luzhou (åº?å·ž; pinyin LúzhÅ?u) during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
A famous Three Kingdoms battle was fought at what is currently Leisure Ford (��津) in Hefei. General Zhang Liao of the Kingdom of Wei commanding 7,000 picked cavalry defeated the 100,000-men army of the Kingdom of Wu. Several decades of warring in Hefei between Wu and Wei followed this battle. During the Song Dynasty, Hefei was a frontier strategic town against the Jin Dynasty.
Hefei was the temperorary capital for Anhui from 1853 to 1862. It was renamed as Hefei County in 1912. Following the Chinese victory in the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1945, Hefei was made the capital of Anhui.
Hefei is located 130 km west of Nanjing.
Hefei's annual average temperature is about 15.7 °C. Its annual precipitation is about 1000 mm. It snows irregularly in the winter.
In the months of June, July, August, and often September, daily temperatures can reach highs of 37 °C with high hunidity levels being the norm.
May and June see the air quality level in Hefei diminish. The city is blanketed by a foul-smelling smog caused by the smoke generated as farmers outside the city burn their fields in preparation for planting the next crop.
Chaohu Lake, a lake 15 km southeast of the city, is one of the largest freshwater lakes in China. However, the lake has unfortuneatly been polluted with nitrogen and phosphorus in recent decades.
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