- Anhui Province

Population: 52.2 million

Urban population: 15.3 million

Nationalities: Han, Hui, and She.

Area: 130,000 square kilometers

Climatic features: Warm-temperate, semi-humid, monsoonal climate north of the Huaihe River, with frequent spring droughts and summer floods; subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate in the south, clear-cut seasons; plum rains between spring and summer, sometimes followed by summer droughts.

Average temperature: -1 to 4 C. in January, 27 - 29 C. in July.

Annual Average Rainfall: 700 - 800 mm north of the Huaihe River, 800 - 1,700 mm south of the river; high precipitation in the mountain areas.

Physical features: Mainly plains and hills; the alluvial plain of the Huaihe River and its tributaries, 20 - 40 meters in altitude, makes up half of the province's farmland; hills line both sides of the Yangtze River.

Mountains: Dabei Mountains in the central west; in the south, the Huangshan and Jiuhua Mountains.

Rivers: Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers

Lakes: Chaohu Lake in the center; Longgan and Pohu Lakes in the southwest; Nanyi Lake in the east.

Products: Rice, wheat, sorghum, corn, millet, potatoes, soybeans, peanuts, sesame, rapeseed, peas; silk cocoons, cotton, ambary hemp, Chinese tallow tree, ramie; tobacco; apples, pears, yangtao, gingko; iron, coal, copper.

Specialties: Qimenhong, Tunxilu, Huangshan Maofeng, and Liu'an Guapian teas.

Administrative divisions: 16 cities and 65 counties.

Capital: Hefei

Neighboring Areas: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, and Shandong Provinces.

Major Cities: Hefei, Huainan, Bengbu, Wuhu, Tongling, Anqing, Ma'anshan, Huaibei, Tunxi

Tourist Attractions: Huangshan Mountain, famous for its sea of clouds, hot prings, precipitous rocks, and pines; Jiuhua Mountain, famous for its Buddhist temples; Mount Tianzhu in the Dabie Mountains, a well-know scenic spot.

Source: Atlas of the Peoples Republic of China, Beijing, 1989.

Last modified: Tuesday, December 16, 2003