Coastline:
1,000 kilometers long

Climatic features:
spans the warm-temperate/semi-humid and subtropical/humid zones; clear-cut seasonal changes; frequent "plum rains" between spring and summer; typhoons with rainstorms in late summer and early autumn; occasional frost, dry and hot winds, and hailstorms


Average temperature:
minus 2 - 4 centigrade degree in January, 26 - 29 centigrade degree in July. for latest weather forcast.

Annual average rainfall:
800 - 1,200 mm; high precipitation in the southeast and low in the northwest; 60 percent of the rain falls during the summer in the northeast

Physical features:
plains cover 95 percent of the province's total area with well-developed water systems; the Grand Canal traverses all the east-west river systems; borders the Yellow Sea.

Rivers: Yangtze River (6,300 kilometers, third longest river in the world next to the Nile and Amazon); abandoned waterway of the Yellow River; lower reaches of Huaihe River; and Guanhe River

Lakes: Lake Taihu, and Hongze, Gaoyou, Luoma, and Yangcheng Lakes

Products:
rice, wheat, corn, sorghum, millet, potatoes, soybeans, peanuts, rape, sesame, tea; cotton, ambary hemp, silk cocoons, jute; peppermint, spearmint, bamboo, and medicinal herbs; apples, pears, peaches, loquats, gingko; coal, phosphorus, salt, pottery clay; aquatic products

Specialties:
Gaoyou duck and duck eggs, Langshan chicken, Taihu whitebait, shad and anchovy of the Yangtze, crabs of Yangcheng Lake

Administrative divisions:
21 cities and 54 counties

Neighboring areas: Zhejiang, Anhui, and Shandong Provinces; Shanghai Municipality

Major cities:
Nanjing, Wuxi, Suzhou, Xuzhou, Lianyungang, Changzhou, Nantong, Zhenjiang

Tourist attractions:
yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing; Suzhou gardens; Lake Taihu in Wuxi; the Grand Canal