Major Cities: Hefei, Huangshan, Huainan, Bengbu, Wuhu, Tongling, Anqing, Ma'anshan, Huaibei, Tunxi

Area: 130,000 sq km
Capital: Hefei
Neighboring Areas: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Hubei, Henan, and Shandong provinces

Population: 59.0 million
Urban Population: 15.3 million

Nationalities: Han, Hui and She

Tourist Attractions: Mt. Huangshan, famous for its sea of clouds, hot springs, precipitous rocks, and pines; Mt. Jiuhuashan, famous for its Buddhist temples; Mt. Tianzhu in the Dabie Ranges, a well-known scenic spot

Climatic Features: warm-temperate, semi-humid, monsoon climate in the north of the Huaihe River with frequent spring droughts and summer floods; subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate in the south; distinctive seasons; plum rains between spring and summer, sometimes followed by summer droughts
Average Temperature: -1 C to 4 C in January, 27 C to 29 C in July
Annual Average Rainfall: 700 - 800 mm in the north of the Huaihe River, 800 - 1,700 mm in the mountain areas

Physical Features: mainly plains and hills; the alluvial plain of the Huaihe River and its tributaries, 20 - 40 meters in altitude, makes up half of the province's farmland; hills line both sides of the Yangtze River
Mountains: Dabie Ranges in the central west; in the south, Mt. Huangshan and Mt. Jiuhuashan

Rivers: the Yangtze River and Huaihe River
Lakes: Chaohu Lake in the center; Longgan and Pohu Lakes in the southwest; Nanyi Lake in the east

Products: rice, wheat, sorghum, corn, millet, potato, soybean, peanut, sesame, rape, pea, silk cocoon, cotton, ambary hemp, Chinese tallow tree, ramie, tobacco, apple, pear, yangtao, gingko, iron, coal, copper

Specialties: Qimenhong, Tunxilu, Huangshan Maofeng, and Liu'an Guapian teas