Bengbu, Anhui

People's Republic of China

Bengbu, Anhui shares 22 connections with 2889 other places across 6 topics, with history, military, and government connections forming the bulk of its profile. The city sits on the Huai River at the southeast edge of the North China Plain, and its ties run heavily through mid-20th-century conflict: in 1948, the Communist People's Liberation Army won a decisive victory over Nationalist forces near Bengbu in the Huaihai Campaign. Nearby Xuzhou and Nanjing share many of these same connections. The city also anchors a Roman Catholic diocese in the Anqing ecclesiastical province.