Population: 90.8 million
Urban population: 52.5 million
Nationalities: Han, Hui, and Manchu
Area: 150,000 square kilometers
Coastline: 3,000 kilometers long
Climatic features: warm-temperate, semi-humid, monsoonal
climate; influenced by the ocean, it is warmer and more humid
than inland provinces; rainy summers; dry winters
Average temperature: -5oC to -1oC in
January, 24oC to - 28oC in July
Annual average rainfall: 560 - 1,170 mm; precipitation
decreases from the southeast to the northwest; 60-70 percent of
the rain falls during the summer
Physical features: situated in the lower Yellow River
Valley, hills in the central region and on the eastern peninsula;
plains in the north, west, and central east; narrow lowlands in
the south and along the southeastern coast; faces the Bohai Gulf
in the north and the Yellow Sea in the east.
Products: wheat, corn, sorghum, millet, potatoes, sweet
potatos, rice, soybeans, peanuts, tea, sesame; cotton, tussah,
ambary hemp; flue cured tobacco; peaches, walnuts, chestnuts,
persimmons, sea products, coal, petroleum, salt
Specialties: Yantai apples, Leling jujubes, Laiyang pears,
Pingdu grapes, Dezhou watermelons
Administrative divisions: 25 cities and 86 counties
Capital: Jinan
Neighboring areas: Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Hebei
Provinces
Major cities: Jinan, Yantai, Weifang, Qingdao, Zibo,
Zaozhuang, Jining, Dongying, Oufu
Tourist attractions: Confucius' Temple in Qufu, Mount Tai, one of the historic Five Mountains in the eastern China, in Tai'an, Qingdao, a summer resort city\
