- 淮北市 huáiběishì HuaibeiHuaibei, a prefecture-level city in Anhui Province [[安徽省|安徽省|an1 hui1 sheng3]]
- 淮南橘,淮北枳 huáinánjúhuáiběizhǐ south of the Huai River is a tangerine, north is a trifoliate orangean idiom meaning that the environment changes the nature of a person or thing, as the same species of plant might produce sweet fruit in the south but bitter fruit in the north