main cities of shaanxi: xian , xianyang , baoji , hanzhong , tongchuan , yan'an .
shaanxi, the center of chinese inland. the length from north to south is longer than the width from east to west. the length is 870 kilometers; the width is 200 to 5l0 kilometers. the whole province covers an area of 205,800 square kilometers. there are various landforms. qinba mountainous areas in south shaanxi , central shaanxi plain, and loess plateau in north shaanxi lie side by side from south to north.
shaanxi province straddles across the yellow river basin and the changjiang river basin . it characters in three kinds of climate: a humid climate of subtropics, a half humid climate of warm-- temperate zone , and a half dry climate of temperate zone . shaanxi has a continental monsoon climate. the all-year--round average temperature is 10.0--- l6.6"c. the annual average rainfall is 350-l040mm. the difference between south and north is quite distinct.
shaanxi has a population of 36.44 million. the population density is l80 per square kilometer. the han nationality accounts for 99.4% of the total. the proportion of male to female is 108.5: l00. people aging from zero to fourteen accounts for 25.02% of the total, from fifteen to sixty-four, 49.04%, above sixty-five, 5.94%.
there are nine provincial cities, two regions and 107 counties under the jurisdiction of shaanxi . there are xi'an , baoji , xianyang, tongchuan, weinan, hanzhong, yan'an, yulin, ankang, as well as shangluo region and yangling agricultural hight-tech industries demonstration zone.