Shaanxi: Geographic Location and Major Cities

Shaanxi Province lies in the middle reaches of Yellow River, east of northwest region of China. It stretches from 105°29′east to 111°15′east of longitude and 31°42′north to 39°35′north of latitude. It is bounded on the east by Shanxi through Yellow river, on the west by Gansu, Ningxia, on the north by Inner Mongolia, on the south by Sichuan, Chongqing and on the southeast by Henan and Hubei. Shaanxi connects east with west and links up south and north.

Shaanxi Province has a land area of 205,800 km2. It stretches 880 km from south to north and 160-490km from east to west. The north and the south was higher than that of the middle area, the west was higher than the east. Shaanxi has an extremely varied topography. The north is Loess Plateau, the middle is Guanzhong Plain, and the south is Qinba mountainous area. It governs 10 provincial cities including Xi’an, Baoji, Xianyang, Tongchuan, Weinan, Yan’an, Yulin, Hanzhong, 3 county-level cities, 80 counties, 23 municipal districts.

Rivers bordered by Qinling Mountain were divided into south and north river systems which belong to Changjiang river system and Yellow river system respectively, including Weihe River, Jinghe River, Luohe River, Wuding River, Hanjiang River, Danjiang River and Jialing River. Shaanxi covers a land area of 205,800 km2, accounting for 2.1% of that of China. Of which, cultivated area is 4.154 million ha., gardern area is 681,000 ha., forestry area is 10.203 million ha., grassland area is 3.134 million ha., agricultural area is 303,000 ha. nd unused area is 1.308 million ha.
Shaanxi has mountainous area of 7.41 million ha., plateau area of 9.26 million ha. and plain area of 3.91 million ha., accounting for 36.0%, 45.0% and 19.0% of total area respectively.

Geodetic origin of the People’s Republic of China is situated in Yongle Town, Jingyang County, Shaanxi Province.

Source： http://www.shaanxi.gov.cn/