Major Cities: Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Jiaxing, Huzhou.

Area: 100,000 sq km
Coastline: 2,200 kilometers long
Capital: Hangzhou
Neighboring areas: Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu Provinces; Shanghai Municipality

Population: 42.7 million
Urban Population: 17.8 million
Nationalities: Han, She, Hui, Manchu and Miao

Tourist Attractions: Western Lake in Hangzhou; Mt. Putuo of the Zhoushan Islands, famous for its Buddhist temples; the tide waves of the Qiantang River

Climatic Features: subtropical, monsoonal climate; clear-cut seasons; plum rains from early June to early July; droughts in July and August; typhoons from late August to late September
Average Temperature: 2 C to 8 C in January, 27 C to 30 C in July
Annual Average Rainfall: 850 - 1,700 mm; low precipitation in the north

Physical Features: lowlands in the northeast and mountains in the southwest; 70 percent mountains and hills; faces the East China Sea; the Hangzhou Gulf at the mouth of the Qiantang River is closed in by the Zhoushan Islands in the east
Rivers: Qiantang River in the north; Qujiang River in the south, Fuchunjiang

Products: rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, sugar cane, rape, sesame, peanuts, soybeans, tea; ramie, jute, silk cocoons, cotton, bamboo; tea-oil tree, tung tree, Chinese tallow tree; oranges, red bayberries, walnuts, Chinese torreya, loquats, peaches, persimmons, gingko, mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots; sea products including yellow croaker, hairtail, cuttlefish, shellfish, laver, kelp; alum, flourite, salt
Specialties: Fuchunjiang shad, Jinhua ham, Longjing tea, Huyang sheep