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Wanjialing () is a region located in the
Jiangxi province Jiangxi (; ; formerly romanized as Kiangsi or Chianghsi) is a landlocked province in the east of the People's Republic of China. Its major cities include Nanchang and Jiujiang. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hi ...
,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. The region is known as the battlefield of the 1938 Battle of Wanjialing where the Chinese Army achieved decisive victory over Japan. The area is wooded and mountainous, with the
Yangtze The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ; ) is the longest river in Asia, the third-longest in the world, and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains (Tibetan Plateau) and flows ...
to the north and the
Boyang River Boyang ({{zh, s=播扬 , t=播揚 , p=Bōyáng) is a town in southwestern Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The ca ...
to the south. At the time of the war with Japan, the area was used for
subsistence agriculture Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow food crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings. Subsistence agriculturalists target farm output for survival and for mostly local requirements, with little or no su ...
via terraced farming.


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Geography of Jiangxi {{Jiangxi-geo-stub