Major Cities: Jinan, Yantai, Weifang, Qingdao, Zibo, Zaozhuang, Jining, Dongying, Oufu

Area: 150,000 sq km
Coastline: 3,000 km long
Capital: Jinan
Neighboring Areas: Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan, and Hebei provinces

Population: 86.4 million
Urban Population: 44.5 million
Nationalities: Han, Hui and Manchu

Tourist Attractions: Confucius' Temple in Qufu, Mt. Tai, one of the historic Five Sacred Mountains in the eastern China, in Tai'an, Qingdao, a summer resort city

Climatic Features: warm-temperate, semi-humid monsoonal climate; influenced by the ocean; warmer and more humid than inland provinces; rainy summers; dry winters

Average Temperature: -5 C to -1 C in January, 24 C to 28 C 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