Guizhou Province 
 Guizhou Province
 
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Guizhou Province

Population: 30.1 million
Urban population: 9 million
Capital: Guiyang
Area: 170,000 square kilometers

Nationalities:
Han, Miao, Bouyei, Tong, Yi, Shui, Hui, Gelao, Zhuang, and Yao

Altitude:
above 1,000 meters in most areas

Climatic features:
subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; few seasonal changes, with frequent cloudy and rainy weather; hailstorms in spring; occasional spring droughts in the west and summer droughts in the east


Average temperature:
1 - 10 centigrade degree in January, 17 - 28 centigrade degree in July.

Annual average rainfall:
900 - 1,500 mm; high precipitation in the central and southwestern regions; half of the rain falls during the summer

Physical features:
situated on the eastern Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau; mountains in the west slope down toward the north, east, and south

Mountains:
Dalou, Miaoling, and Wumeng Mountains

Waterfall:
the Huangguoshu is one of the leading falls in China in terms of height and volume. The major fall is over 20 meters wide and 60 meters high. The falls drain into the Pearl River.

Products:
rice, wheat, corn, millet, potatoes, rape, sugar cane, soybeans, peanuts, sesame, tea; cotton, ramie, ambary hemp, tussah; flue-cured tobacco; timber; sisal hemp, lemongrass, raw lacquer, tung oil, Chinese tallow tree, cork, coffee, olives, bark of eucommia; gallnuts, silver fungus; pears, oranges, apples, bananas, pineapples, walnuts, chestnuts; mercury, coal, phosphorus, bauxite, natural gas

Administrative divisions:
3 autonomous prefectures, 8 cities, 61 counties, 11 autonomous counties, and 3 special districts

Neighboring areas:
Yunnan, Sichuan, and Hunan Provinces: Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Major cities:
Guiyang, Zunyi, Lupanshui, Duyun, Anshun, Kaili, Bijie

Tourist attractions: Huangguoshu Falls, and its nearby caves and stone forests, located between Zhenning and Guanling Counties

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