General introduction
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Area: 66,000 square kilometers
Capital City: Yinchuan
Neighboring
provinces: Shaanxi and Gansu provinces; Inner Mongolia Autonomous
Region
Altitude: mountains is 2,000 meters ; plains is
1,000 - 1,200 meters.
Population: 5.6 million
Urban Population: 1.7 million
Nationalities: Han, Hui and Manchu
Climatic Features: temperate, continental climate with
long cold winter and short hot summer;strong winds.
Average
Temperature: -10C to -7C in January, 17C to 24C in July
Annual Average Rainfall: 190 - 700 mm; precipitation
increasing from north to south
Physical Features: Loess
Plateau in the south and east; Ningxia or Yinchuan Plainin the north; the Yellow
River traverses the Ningxia Plain; Helan Mountains along the western border;
Liupan Mountains in the southwest
Main Products: wheat,
millet, potatoes, corn, sorghum, broomcorn millet, rape, soybeans; flax, hemp;
plaster stone, salt, iron
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