Outwardly Hungarian part of China? (5)

I believe the answer is:

hunan

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'outwardly hungarian part of china?' is the definition.
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'outwardly hungarian part of china?' is the wordplay.
'outwardly' suggests removing the centre (only the outermost letters are used).
'part of' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'parts' mean this (the parts of the original word ordered differently)).
'china?' becomes 'n' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'hungarian' with its centre removed is 'huan'.
'huan' with letters rearranged gives 'huna'.
'huna'+'n'='HUNAN'

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