Henan

Henan (河南; formerly romanized as Honan) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. Henan is the birthplace of Chinese civilization with over 3,000 years of recorded history, and served as China's cultural, economical, and political center until approximately 1,000 years ago. Its neighboring provinces are Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui and Hubei. Henan is China's third most populous province with a population of over 94 million.

Henan in "Curse of the Three Demons"
When Sa'id ibn Hawqal traveled to Honan province, he found that everything there seemed somehow faintly misty, so that things that would have been easily visible in other places, blurred against an even more indistinct background.