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Rehe

Rehe (simplified Chinese: 热河省; traditional Chinese: 熱河省; pinyin: Rèhé shěng; literally "Hot River"), also known as Jehol, is a defunct Chinese province that used to consist of part of today's Hebei Province, Liaoning Province and Inner Mongolia in northeastern China. Rehe's capital was Chengde. It was the traditional gateway to Mongolia and was overrun by Tatars, Xiongnu, and Khitan Mongols.

Jehol was the name used in the 1920s and 1930s for the Chinese province north of the Great Wall, west of Manchuria, and east of Mongolia. It was seized by the Japanese as a follow-up to the Mukden Incident in Operation Nekka beginning on January 21, 1933, and was annexed to Manchukuo and not restored until the end of the war in August 1945. The seizure of Jehol was one of the most important of many incidents in the 1930s that poisoned relations between Japan and China, and between Japan and the West.

From 1945 to 1955, Rehe retained its provincial status.

• Abbreviation: 熱