Shanxi

Etymology 1
From the romanization of, in reference to the location of the province's central Fen River valley.

Translations

 * Arabic: شَانْشِي
 * Armenian: Շանսի
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 山西
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: Šan-si
 * Georgian:
 * Greek: Σανσί
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 山西
 * Korean: ^산시, 산서
 * Latvian: Šaņsji
 * Lithuanian: Šansi
 * Macedonian: Шансји
 * Manchu: ᠰᠠᠨᠰᡳ
 * Marathi: शान्शी
 * Mongolian:
 * Mongolian script: ᠱᠠᠨ ᠰᠢ
 * Cyrillic: Шаньси
 * Russian: Шаньси́
 * Vietnamese: Sơn Tây
 * Zhuang: Sanhsih

Etymology 2
From the romanization of.

Usage notes
Because of homography with (, another province of China, this spelling is proscribed. The official English language names for the two provinces are: (1) Shanxi Province  with only one 'a' (capital: Taiyuan) and (2) Shaanxi Province  with two a's (capital: Xi'an). The Chinese characters used in the names of the two provinces are different (the character  in Shanxi versus the character  in Shaanxi). The names of the two provinces are similarly (but not identically) pronounced.