What is the geographical overview of Shandong?

Shandong Province is one of the 10 coastal provinces and cities in my country, located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

Located in the mid-latitudes of the northern hemisphere, the distance between the north and south at its widest point is about 420 kilometers, and the longest distance between winter and west is about 700 kilometers. This makes the difference in Shandong’s physical geography between winter and west more obvious than that between north and south. Shandong faces the ocean to the east and the west to the west. By the mainland.

The horizontal terrain is divided into two parts: peninsula and continent.

The Shandong Peninsula in the east protrudes between the Yellow Sea and the Bohai Sea, facing the Liaodong Peninsula across the Bohai Strait.

The Miaodao Islands stand in the Bohai Strait, which is the boundary between the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea. It strangles the throat of the strait and has become an important coastal defense gateway to defend the capital Beijing.

The western continental part borders the four provinces of Hebei, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu from north to south. Shandong Province has a mild climate, concentrated rainfall, and four distinct seasons. It has a warm temperate monsoon climate.

Southerly wind prevails in summer, which is hot and rainy, while northerly wind blows in winter, which is cold and dry. In spring, the weather is changeable, with drought, less rain and more wind and sand. In autumn, the weather is sunny and cool, and the temperature is moderate.

The difference in climate regions across the province is greater in the west than between the north and the south in winter.

The annual average temperature in Shandong Province is 14℃, which decreases from south to north and from west to east.

The average temperature in southwestern Shandong is mostly above 13℃, and in Jinan, Zaozhuang and other places it is above 14℃. The Jiaodong Peninsula and the Yellow River Delta are the lowest, mostly at 12℃ or even below 11℃.

The average temperature in the province in January is -1~-4℃, and in July the average temperature in the province is 24~27℃.

Winter is the longest in various parts of Shandong, generally 140 to 165 days, followed by summer, about 72 to 108 days, and spring and autumn are shorter, about 50 to 70 days. Shandong is the origin of the geographical name During the Warring States Period more than 2,000 years ago, it generally referred to the area east of Mount Laoshan or Huashan.

Shandong, as the name of an administrative region, began in the Jin Dynasty.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Shandong Road was established, and in the Ming Dynasty, Shandong Chief Secretary was established, forming a territory that is roughly the same as that of Shandong Province today, and most of the county names are still used today.

Shandong Province was officially established in the Qing Dynasty, and its administrative seat was Jinan Prefecture.

After the founding of New China, Shandong Province formed its current administrative divisions after several adjustments.

Shandong Province currently governs 17 cities and 139 counties, cities and districts.

Among them, there are 15 prefecture-level cities, 2 regions, 33 county-level cities, 45 municipal districts, and 61 counties.

Shandong Province has a population of more than 87.8 million, ranking second in the country after Henan Province. Shandong has numerous and unique cultural tourism resources, a long history, and profound cultural accumulation. It has been the most culturally developed country in the country since ancient times. area.

Shandong has numerous cultural relics and historic sites and beautiful mountains and rivers, forming a unique tourist landscape.

The province has: 1 world cultural and natural heritage, Mount Tai, 1 world cultural heritage, Confucius Mansion/Confucius Temple/Confucius Forest, and 3 national key scenic spots: Mount Tai in Tai'an, Mount Laoshan in Qingdao, and the seaside of the Jiaodong Peninsula .

There are 4,107 key cultural relics protection units at all levels, including 27 at the national level and 397 at the provincial level. It has 14 historical and cultural cities, including 6 at the national level.

There are more than 600,000 cultural relics in the collection. Shanxi Shanxi Province is located on the east wing of the Loess Plateau in western North China.

The geographical coordinates are 34°34′～40°43′ north latitude and 110°14′～114°33′ east longitude.

It is about 290 kilometers wide from east to west and about 550 kilometers long from north to south. The province has a total area of ​​156,000 square kilometers, accounting for about 1.6% of the country's total area.

The outline of the realm is slightly parallelogram diagonal from northeast to southwest.

It has the towering Taihang Mountain as a natural barrier in the east and is adjacent to Hebei Province; it has the Taotao Yellow River as a cutting to the west and south, facing Shaanxi and Henan Provinces; it spans the Great Wall in the north and is adjacent to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. .