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00:01:49 1 Names
00:03:16 2 History
00:03:24 2.1 Prehistory
00:03:58 2.2 Ba and Shu Kingdoms
00:05:40 2.3 Qin dynasty
00:06:50 2.4 Han dynasty
00:07:19 2.5 Three Kingdoms
00:08:11 2.6 Tang dynasty
00:08:53 2.7 Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
00:09:24 2.8 Song dynasty
00:11:07 2.9 Ming dynasty
00:12:24 2.10 Qing dynasty
00:13:23 2.11 Republic of China
00:15:18 2.12 People's Republic of China
00:17:09 3 Administrative divisions
00:17:44 3.1 Urban areas
00:17:53 4 Geography and biodiversity
00:20:37 4.1 Giant Panda
00:21:11 4.2 Linpan settlements
00:21:36 5 Politics
00:22:10 6 Economy
00:25:35 6.1 Foreign trade
00:26:34 6.2 Minimum wage
00:27:17 6.3 Economic and technological development zones
00:27:27 6.3.1 Chengdu Economic and Technological Development Zone
00:28:25 6.3.2 Chengdu Export Processing Zone
00:29:01 6.3.3 Chengdu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
00:30:22 6.3.4 Mianyang Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone
00:31:17 7 Transportation
00:31:50 7.1 Airports
00:33:11 7.2 Expressways
00:34:02 7.3 Rail
00:34:22 8 Demographics
00:35:46 8.1 Religion
00:36:48 9 Culture
00:38:35 9.1 Languages
00:40:20 9.2 Cuisine
00:41:33 10 Education
00:41:42 10.1 Colleges and universities
00:43:07 11 Tourism
00:44:16 12 Notable individuals
00:46:02 13 Sports
00:46:33 14 Sister states and regions
00:47:48 15 See also



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Sichuan (四川; alternately romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan) is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south. Sichuan's capital city is Chengdu. The population of Sichuan stands at 81 million.
In antiquity, Sichuan was the home of the ancient states of Ba and Shu. Their conquest by Qin strengthened it and paved the way for the Qin Shi Huang's unification of China under the Qin dynasty. During the Three Kingdoms era, Liu Bei's Shu was based in Sichuan. The area was devastated in the 17th century by Zhang Xianzhong's rebellion and the area's subsequent Manchu conquest, but recovered to become one of China's most productive areas by the 19th century. During the World War II, Chongqing served as the temporary capital of the Republic of China, making it the focus of Japanese bombing. It was one of the last mainland areas to fall to the Communists during the Chinese Civil War and was divided into four parts from 1949 to 1952, with Chongqing restored two years later. It suffered gravely during the Great Chinese Famine of 1959–61 but remained China's most populous province until Chongqing Municipality was again separated from it in 1997.
The people of Sichuan speak a unique form of Mandarin, which took shape during the area's repopulation under the Ming. The family of dialects is now spoken by about 120 million people, which would make it the 10th most spoken language in the world if counted separately. The area's warm damp climate long caused Chinese medicine to advocate spicy dishes; the native Sichuan pepper was supplemented by Mexican chilis during the Columbian Exchange to form modern Sichuan cuisine, whose dishes—including Kung Pao chicken and Mapo tofu—have become staples of Chinese cuisine around the world.