Geographical location and natural conditions of Jilin Province

Referred to as Ji, named after Jilin City, China. Changchun, the provincial capital. The Manchu language Jilin Wula means along the river. It covers an area of 6.5438+800,000 square kilometers and a population of 27.28 million (2000). Jilin is named after the word "Jilin Wula", and Manchu "Jilin Wula" means along the river. Tang belongs to the land of northeast ethnic minorities; Liaoshu Tokyo Road; Metal to Beijing Road; Yuan belongs to Liaoyang province; Ming is a slave who does all the work; Jilin General was established in the Qing Dynasty, and Jilin Province was changed in the late Qing Dynasty. The name of the province has not changed.

Jilin Province is located in the northeast of China, between 40 52 ′ ~ 46 ′ north latitude18 ′ and east longitude12138 ′ ~1kloc-0/9 ′, with the longest distance from east to west. Jilin Province borders Russia in the east (the border is 232.7 kilometers long), faces the Democratic People's Republic of Korea across Tumen River and Yalu River in the southeast (the border is 1206 kilometers long), borders Liaoning Province in the south, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the west and Heilongjiang Province in the north.

In 2003, there were 8,046,886 households with a total population of 26,586,522, including non-agricultural population 1 1954 1. At the end of 2004, the total population of the province was 27.085 million, including urban population 1.4 1.65 million.

Area 187400 square kilometers, accounting for 2% of the country's total area. It is 650 kilometers long from east to west and 300 kilometers wide from north to south. The southeast is high, the northwest is low, and the central and western regions are vast plains. It has a minority autonomous prefecture, namely Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, a sub-provincial city, namely Changchun, the provincial capital, and seven prefecture-level cities, namely Jilin, Siping, Tonghua, Baishan, Liaoyuan, Baicheng and Songyuan.