Yan' an Red Tourism Raiders: Yan' an is located in the Loess Plateau, with high altitude and large temperature difference between morning and evening. Pay attention to bring warm clothes at night.

Yan 'an, referred to as Yan for short, is a prefecture-level city and a provincial sub-central city under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province. It is located in the north of Shaanxi Province, the middle reaches of the Yellow River and the south-central part of the Loess Plateau. It is 371km from the provincial capital in the north, Yulin in the north, Xianyang, Tongchuan and Weinan in the south, Linfen and Lvliang in Shanxi across the Yellow River in the east and Qingyang in Gansu in the west, with a total area of 37,000 square kilometers.

Yan' an, known as pumice and Yanzhou in ancient times, is known as the lock key of Sanqin and the throat of Five Roads. It is an important birthplace of the Chinese nation. The ancestor of mankind, the Yellow Emperor, once lived here. It is the first mausoleum in the world-the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Huangdi Mausoleum: the national holy land, the revolutionary holy land of China, and the location of the first batch of national historical and cultural cities announced by the State Council.

topography

Yan 'an City is located in the middle reaches of the Yellow River and belongs to the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau. Yan 'an landform is dominated by loess plateau and hills, with high terrain in the northwest and low terrain in the southeast, with an average elevation of about1.200m.. Baiyu Mountain in the north is 1.600- 1.800 meters above sea level, and the highest point is at the top of White Mountain in Gu Wu County, with an altitude of 1.809.8 meters. ..

In the south, gullies in the Loess Plateau account for 19% of the total area, and rocky mountains account for 9% of the total area. It starts from Ziwuling in the west and runs from north to south, forming the watershed between Luohe and Jinghe. It is one of the bedrock mountains higher than the Loess Plateau, with an altitude of 1.500- 1.600 meters and a main peak of 1.687 meters, and it is adjacent to Huanglong in the east. The elevation of the main peak is 1, 788.7m, and the middle part is Laoshan, which runs northwest-southeast, with an average elevation of 1, 400m, and the elevation of the main peak is 1, 464m m.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yan 'an