Major Cities: Fuzhou, Xiamen, Nanping, Sanming, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou

Area: 120,000 sq km
Capital: Fuzhou
Coastline: 3,300 kilometers long
Neighboring Areas: Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Taiwan provinces

Population: 31.5 million
Urban Population: 12 million
Nationalities: Han, Hui, Miao, Manchu, Gaoshan and She

Tourist Attractions: Gulangyu Island, called the "garden on the sea" in Xiamen; Mt. Wuyishan, a scenic spot in Chong'an county

Climatic Features: subtropical, humid, monsoon climate; spring droughts, typhoons and rainstorms from summer to autumn
Average Temperature: 5 C to 13 C in January, 25 C to 30 C in July
Annual Average Rainfall: 800 - 1,900 mm; low precipitation in the coastal lowlands, high in the northwestern mountains; the most rainfall occurs in May and June

Physical Features: graduated descent from the northwest to the southeastern seaboard; 90 percent mountains and hills; long and narrow plains along the coast; the East China Sea lies toward the northeast, the South China Sea toward the south, and Taiwan province southeast across the Taiwan Strait
Mountains: Mt. Wuyishan, Mt. Jiufengshan, Mt. Daiyunshan, Mt. Daimaoshan, and Mt. Bopingshan
Rivers: the Minjiang River is the major waterway, with a drainage that covers about half of the province

Products: rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sugar cane, rape, soybeans, sesame, tea, longans, oranges, lychees, pineapples, pomelos, loquats, bananas, lotus seeds, dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, silver fungus, jute, tobacco, rosin, medicinal herbs, tea oil, tung oil, Chinese tallow tree, laver, lancelet, and other sea products, timber, iron, coal, molybdenum, manganese, salt, graphite