a large, populous, and rich town of Asia, in China, seated in the middle of a large and well cultivated plain. It stands in a bottom; and when besieged by the rebels in 1642, they ordered the dykes of the river Hohangho to be cut, which drowned the city, and destroyed 300,000 of its inhabitants. E. Long. 113. 27. N. Lat. 35. 0.