- Guizhou Province

Population: 30.1 million

Urban population: 9 million

Nationalities: Han, Miao, Bouyei, Tong, Yi, Shui, Hui, Gelo, Zhuang, and Yao.

Area: 170,000 square kilometers

Altitude: Above 1,000 meters in most areas

Climatic features: Subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; few seasonal changes, with frequent cloudy and rainy weather; hailstorms in spring; occasional spring droughts in the west and summer droughts in the east.

Average temperature: 1 - 10 C. in January, 17 - 28 C. in July.

Annual Average Rainfall: 900 - 1,500 mm; high precipitation in the central and southwestern regions; half of the rain falls during the summer.

Physical features: Situated on the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau; mountains in the west slope down toward the north, east, and south.

Products: Rice, wheat, corn, millet, potatoes, rapeseed, sugar cane, soybeans, peanuts, sesame, tea; cotton, ramie, ambary hemp, tussah; flue-cured tobacco; timber; sisal hemp, lemongrass, raw lacquer, tung oil, Chinese tallow tree, cork, coffee, olives, bark of eucommia; gallnuts, silver fungus; pears, oranges, apples, bananas, pineapples, walnuts, chestnuts; mercury, coal, phosphorus, bauxite, natural gas.

Administrative divisions: 8 cities, 61 counties, 3 autonomous prefectures, 3 special districts, and 11 autonomous counties.

Capital: Guiyang

Neighboring Areas: Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hunan Provinces; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Major Cities: Guiyang, Zunyi, Lupanshui, Duyun, Anshun, Kaili, Bijie.

Tourist Attractions: Huangguoshu Falls, and its nearby caves and stone forests, located between Zhenning and Guangling Counties.

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

Last modified: Tuesday, December 16, 2003