Which city has a larger population, Houma, Shanxi or Yangquan?
Yangquan Yangquan () is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China. Situated at the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau and the west side of the Taihang Mountains, Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,452 km2 . According to the 2010 Census, Yangquan has a population of 1,368,502 inhabitants, 95,386 more than in 2000 (an annualized growth rate of 0.73% for the last decade).
Xu Yuanquan Xu Yuanquan (徐源泉; Hsü Yüan-ch'üan; 1885–1960) was a Kuomintang general. He was born in Huanggang, Hubei. An eyewitness to the Wuchang Uprising, he was commander of the 48th Division of the Nationalist forces in 1930. In 1933 he was commanding the Tenth Army, stationed in Changsha, and he was involved in the opium trade.