- Jiangxi Province

Population: 35.1 million

Urban population: 10.3 million

Nationalities: Han, Hui, She, Miao, and Yao.

Area: 160,000 square kilometers

Climatic features: Subtropical, monsoonal climate; plum rains in spring; rainstorms in summer; autumn droughts; cold waves in winter.

Average temperature: 3 - 9 C. in January, 227 - 31 C. in July.

Annual Average Rainfall: 1,200 - 1,900 mm; high precipitation in the northeast; half of the annual rain falls from April to June.

Physical features: Hills and mountains in the south gradually slope toward Poyang Lake in the north; the Ganjiang River Valley is a plain bordered by hills to the east and west.

Rivers and lake: The Ganjiang-Poyang drainage system covers most of the province and empties into the YangtzeRiver, which coincides with the part of Jiangxi's northern border; Poyang Lake, 3,583 sq. km., China's largest fresh water lake.

Products: Rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, millet, rapeseed, sugar cane, tea, peanuts, soybeans, sesame; cotton, ramie, jute, silk cocoons; tea oil,; timber; oranges, pomelos, lotus seeds; common carpl, silver carp, black carp, bighead; wolfram, copper, coal; ceramics.

Administrative divisions: 12 cities and 77 counties.

Capital: Nanchang

Neighboring Areas: Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Hunan, Hubei, and Anhui Porvinces.

Major Cities: Nanchang, Jiujiang, Ganzhou, Jingdezhen, Ji'an, Ruijin

Tourist Attractions: Mount Lushan, by Poyang Lake; Jingdezhen, an acient town known as the 'capital of ceramics'.

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

Last modified: Tuesday, December 16, 2003