Hunan Province 
 Hunan Province
 
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Hunan Province

Population: 57 million
Urban population: 18.8 million

Nationalities:
Han, Tujia, Miao, Dong, Yao, Hui, Uygur, and Zhuang

Area: 210,000 square kilometers

Climatic features:
subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; short winters with low temperatures in the south and the northwestern mountains; frequent rainstorms between spring and summer; droughts from summer to autumn

Average temperature:
4 - 8 centigrade degree in January, 26 - 30 centigrade degree in July.

Annual average rainfall:
1,250 - 1,750 mm; high precipitation on the seaward side of mountains; 50 percent of the rain falls from April to June

Physical features:
mountains and hills cover 80 percent of the province; a small plain surrounds Dongting Lake in the central north

Mountains:
Wuling Mountains in the northwest; Xuefeng Mountains in the central west; Luoxiao Mountains in the east; Nanling Mountains in the south


Rivers:
Xiangjiang, Yuanjiang, Zishui, and Lishui Rivers; the Yangtze River touches the border near Dongting Lake.

Lakes: Dongting and Datong Lakes

Products:
rice, wheat, potatoes, corn, sorghum, millet, rape, soybeans, peanuts, sugar cane, sesame, tea; cotton, ramie, silk cocoons; flue-cured tobacco; tung oil, tea oil; lotus seeds, yangtao, oranges, lily; timber; pork, goose; antimony, lead, zinc, and other non-ferrous and rare metals

Administrative divisions:
1 autonomous prefecture, 24 cities, 74 counties, and 6 autonomous counties

Capital: Changsha

Neighboring areas:
Jiangxi,
Guangdong, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Hunan Provinces; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region

Major cities:
Changsha, Zhuzhou, Hengyang, Xiangtan, Shaoyang, Lengshuijiang

Tourist attractions:
Mount Hengshan, 1,290 meters high, is one of the Five Mountains in eastern China; Dongting Lake, once the biggest fresh water lake in China, has an area of 2,820 square kilometers.

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