Bengbu Bèngbù [Bengbu] Chinese city name. It is in northern Anhui province, and is said to have gotten its name from the abundance of mussels.

Bengbu (蚌) (bèng), abbreviated as Beng, is also known as Zhu Cheng (珠城). It is a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province, the first prefecture-level city in Anhui Province to set up a city (New Year's Day 1947). It has four municipal districts, Bengshan District, Yuhui District, Huaishang District, and Longzihu District, and jurisdiction over three counties, Huaiyuan County, Guzhen County, and Wuhe County.

Bu, pronounced bù, is a commonly used word. It originally means a pier for docking ships, i.e., a building for docking ships, loading and unloading passengers, and loading and unloading goods along the Jian River and in the harbor. Because there are many wharves which later become towns, it refers to towns with wharves or towns in general; it also refers to commercial ports; it is also used in place names.

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Bengbu City is located in the northern part of Anhui Province, between 32°43′ and 33°30′ north latitude and 116°45′ and 118°04′ east longitude, and is bordered by Suizhou City, Suixi County, Lingbi County, and Siachen County in the north, Huainan City and Fengyang County in the south, Mingguang City and Sihong County of Jiangsu Province in the east, and Mengcheng County and Fengtai County in the west. It is portable with Huainan City in the southwest and borders with Suixi and Mengcheng County in the northwest.

The city's longest east-west distance is 32.3 kilometers, and its largest north-south span is 23.5 kilometers. The Jinpu Railway runs north-south from the center of the territory, and the Huaihe River flows across the south from west to east, and most of the jurisdiction is at the southern end of the Huaibei Plain.

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