- Henan Province

Population: 78.1 million

Urban population: 16.7 million

Nationalities: Han, Hui, Manchu, and Mongolian.

Area: 160,000 square kilometers

Climatic features: Spans the warm-temperate/semi-humid and subtropical/humid climates; dry, windy winters and springs; hot, rainy summers; strong sunlight in autumn.

Average temperature: -3 C to 3 C in January, 24 C to 29 C in July.

Annual Average Rainfall: 500 - 900 mm; high precipitation in the southern and northern mountains; 50 percent of the rain falls during the summer.

Physical features: Generally, plains cover the east and mountains cover the west; part of the Yangtze River Basin lies in the southwest.

Mountains: Funiu, Waifang, Xiong'er, Xiaoshan Mountains in the west, which are extensions of the Qinling Range; southern foot of the Taihang Range in the north; Tongbai and Dabie Mountains in the south.

Rivers: Yellow and Huaihe Rivers.

Products: Wheat, corn, millet, rice, potatoes, sorghum, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sesame, soybeans, sugar cane, rapeseed, edible fungus; cotton, ambary hemp, tussah, flue-cured tobacco, oriental oak; apples, peaches, grapes, walnuts, gingko, persimmons; coal, bauxite, mica, nickel.

Specialties: Lingbao dates, Huaiyang day lily, Huanghe common carp.

Administrative divisions: 18 cities and 111 counties.

Capital: Zhengzhou

Neighboring Areas: Shandong, Anhui, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei.

Major Cities: Zhengzhou, Luoyang, Kaifeng, Pingdingshan, Xinxiang, Anyang, Nanyang.

Tourist Attractions: Shaolin Temple, at the foot of Mount Songshan, one of the Five Mountains in eastern China; Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang.

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

Last modified: Tuesday, December 16, 2003