Shaanxi is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi, Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia. Shaanxi covers an area of over 205,000 sq km (79,151 sq mi) with about 37 million people, the 16th highest in China.