Dialect has also been used as a tool for regional identitity and politics in the Jiangbei and Jiangnan regions.
Lower Saxony | Lower Austria | Lower East Side | Mandarin Chinese | Lower Canada | Mandarin | Yangtze River | Lower Silesia | Lower Manhattan | Nienburg, Lower Saxony | Lower Bavaria | Lower Mainland | Gleichen, Lower Saxony | Lower Hutt | Esens, Lower Saxony | Lower Dir District | Yangtze Patrol | Lower Silesian Voivodeship | Lower Lusatia | Lower Egypt | Lower Canada Rebellion | Henryków, Lower Silesian Voivodeship | The Lower Depths | Srebrna Góra, Lower Silesian Voivodeship | Lower Ninth Ward | Lower Navarre | Lower Juba | Lilienthal, Lower Saxony | Special Council of Lower Canada | Seeburg, Lower Saxony |
Iwata argues that innovations have been transmitted from the north across the Huai River to the Lower Yangtze Mandarin area and from there southeast to the Wu area and westwards along the Yangtze River valley and thence to southwestern areas, leaving the hills of the southeast largely untouched.