or SHAN-SEE, an inland province of China, bounded on the N. by Mongolia, from which it is separated by the Great Wall, E. by Pe-che-li, S. by Honan, and W. by Shen-si. Area, 55,360 square miles. The surface is in general mountainous, but there are many level tracts. The largest river is the Hoang-ho, which forms the whole of the western and part of the southern boundary. It receives many affluents, which, though small compared with the giant streams of China, would anywhere else be considered of great size. The Tan-ho, the largest of these in this province, has a length of 300 miles. In the north of Shan-si are some of the favourite hunting-grounds of the Shun-Tung Chinese emperors. The productions of the province are rice, wheat, millet, coal, iron, lapis lazuli, salt, jaspers, musk, rice, brandy, carpets, &c. The chief town is Tai-yuen-fu. Pop. (1812) 14,004,210, (1843) 15,000,000.