Jiangsu, China?!?!

BY VICTOR FULCHER

Location. Jiangsu is located at:

Lat.30° 46' to 35° 07' NLong.116° 22' to 121° 55' E

Jiangsu borders Shandong in the north, Anhui to the west, and Zhejiang and Shanghai to the south. Jiangsu has a coastline of over one thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, and the Yangtze River passes through its southern parts

Where is Jiangsu, again?Right here

Physical Characteristics Bodies of water: Taihu Lake, Hongze Lake, Lake

Gaoyou, Lake Luoma, Yangcheng Lake Landforms: Flat and low, with plains covering

about 68% of its total area (water covers another 18 percent)

Climate: Jiangsu has a warm, humid, and subtropical climate zones

Natural Vegetation: Cotton, soybeans, peanuts, sesame, ambary hemp, tea, peppermint, spearmint, bamboo, medicinal herbs, apples, pears, peaches, loquats, ginkgo, and silkworms.

Human Characteristics Population: 75,500,000 Ethnic Groups: Han Chinese, Hui,

and Manchus Language: Chinese language,

Mandarin, and Wu. Culture: Their culture is more

southern than the rest and the Wu. Other parts of the province is "Jianghuai Culture"

Economy: Command Economy Government: Communist

Functional Major Trade Partners: Dusseldorf/Germany,

Paris/France, Chelmsford/UK, Tilburg/the Netherlands and Stockholm/Sweden

Metropolitan Cities Changzhou, Lianyungang, Zhenjiang,

Zhangjiagang, Changshu, and those are just the ones with the longest names!

Major Rivers - Drainage: The Yangtze River

Formal Climate Regions:

-2 to 4°C in January and 26 to 30°C in July

Land Area: about 100,000 km2

Human/Environment Interaction

Dams: none Canals: The

town of Suzhou has so many that it is called the "Venice of the East", and another Canal system is The Grand Canal of China

Irrigation: North Jiangsu Irrigation Main Channel

Another Picture!!!

Movement of goods Foods: Jiangsu Cuisine, Suzhou,

Nanjing, Wuxi Trade goods: coal, petroleum, and

natural gas Manufactured goods: machinery,

electronics, chemicals, and automobiles

Works Cited "Jiangsu." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

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