The geographical location of Quanzhou

Quanzhou, located in the southeast of Fujian Province, is one of the three major central cities in Fujian Province, ranking first in the province in terms of economic aggregate 1 1 year, and is the economic center of Fujian Province. Fuzhou and Putian, the provincial capitals in the north, Xiamen in the south, Bao Dao in the east and Zhangzhou, Longyan and Sanming in the west. It has jurisdiction over four districts of Licheng, Fengze, Luojiang and Quangang, three county-level cities of Jinjiang, Shishi and Nan 'an, five counties of Hui 'an, Anxi, Yongchun, Dehua and Jinmen (to be unified) and Quanzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone. Quanzhou has the same dialect as Zhangzhou, Xiamen and Taiwan Province: Minnan dialect.

Nickname: Licheng, Erythrina City, Wenling

Quanzhou is the English name of Quanzhou.

Geographical location: 24 22 ′-25 56 ′ N, and117 34 ′-19 05 ′ E.

The land area of the whole city is 1 10 15 square kilometers. The total population is 7.74 million (excluding kinmen county), with the Han nationality accounting for 98.2% and ethnic minorities accounting for 1.8%. There are 48 ethnic minorities, mainly Hui, She, Miao and Mongolian. Quanzhou's customs are simple, profound and unique. Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism coexist and blend with each other.

Quanzhou is a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and the main ancestral home of compatriots from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. At present, there are 6.24 million overseas Chinese living in Quanzhou and 700,000 compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao. In Taiwan Province Province, 44.8% of Han compatriots (about 9 million people) come from Quanzhou.

Quanzhou carves the flying sky to welcome guests. Quanzhou is surrounded by mountains and faces the sea. The mountains are undulating, and valleys and basins are scattered. There are 455 peaks above 1000 meters above sea level, which are mainly distributed in some mountainous areas of Dehua, Yongchun, Anxi and Nan 'an. Daiyun Mountain runs from northeast to southwest, with the main peak at an altitude of1856m. It is called the "roof of central Fujian" in Dehua County. The territory is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and it transits from Zhongshan and low mountains to coastal hills and basin plains. Quanzhou coastline is tortuous, mostly bedrock coast, with a total length of about 4,265,438+0 km. It has four harbors, namely Meizhou Bay, Quanzhou Bay, shenhu bay and Weitou Bay, and 14 ports, such as Xiaocuo, Chongwu, Houzhu, Meilin and Shijing. Quanzhou spans two subtropics in central and southern China, namely, the evergreen broad-leaved forest belt in the northwest of Daiyun Mountain and the subtropical rain forest belt in the southeast, which is hot and humid all the year round and short-term drought. Quanzhou has abundant rainfall all year round. There are as many as 35 streams in China, with a total length of1620km. Jinjiang is the longest river in China and is rich in water resources. Quanzhou has high total solar radiation, long sunshine time, rich light and heat resources and abundant rainfall, which is called "hotbed of southern Fujian" and is extremely beneficial to the development of agricultural production, especially cash crops such as sugar, oil, hemp, forest, fruit and tea. It is the national production base of oolong tea, longan and citrus, and Anxi Tieguanyin and Yongchun citrus are the fist export products. There are nearly 100 species of main economic fish, and there are more than 20 species with high yield. Shallow beach area1180,000 mu. It is rich in shellfish and algae such as oysters, clams, snails, kelp and seaweed. There are mainly more than 20 kinds of iron, manganese, gold, coal, quartz sand, granite, kaolin, geothermal and mineral water. Dehua kaolin ranks among the top in China and is the main raw material of Dehua ceramics.