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Zhongyuan, or the Central Plain, is the area on the lower reaches of the Yellow River which formed the cradle of Chinese civilization.

Zhongyuan or 中原 may also refer to:

Mainland China

• Zhongyuan Mandarin, dialect of Mandarin Chinese spoken on the Central Plain
• Zhongyuan Airlines, former airline based in Henan
• Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou
• Zhongyuan, Hainan, town in Qionghai
• Zhongyuan, Shaanxi, town in Hanbin District, Ankang
• West Zhongyuan Road Subdistrict (中原西路街道), formerly Zhongyuan Township, in Zhongyuan District, Zhengzhou
• Zhongyuan Township, Gansu, in Zhenyuan County
• Zhongyuan Township, Jiangxi (中源乡), in Jing'an County
• Zhongyuan Festival (中元节), a Taoist holiday

Taiwan

• Chung Yuan Christian University, in Zhongli, Taoyuan County, Taiwan
• Zhongyuan metro station, station of the Taipei Metro

Other uses

• Nakahara (disambiguation), the Japanese equivalent