The dividing line between north and south is the Huaihe River in Qinling Mountains, with Qinling Mountains in the south and Qinling Mountains in the north. Qinling Mountains are located in the south of Shaanxi Province and Xuzhou in Jiangsu Province is in the north, so Xuzhou belongs to the north.

Xuzhou, formerly known as Pengcheng, is a prefecture-level city in Jiangsu Province. Located in the northwest of Jiangsu Province, the southeast of North China Plain, the north wing of the Yangtze River Delta, Weishan Lake in the north, Xiaoxian County in the west, Lianyungang in the east and Suqian in the south, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal passes through the territory. Longhai and Beijing-Shanghai railway trunk lines meet in Xuzhou, which is known as the thoroughfare of five provinces.

The total area of Xuzhou is 1 1258 square kilometers, and the urban area is 3037 square kilometers. The terrain is dominated by plains, which account for about 90% of the city's area. It has jurisdiction over 5 municipal districts, 3 counties and 2 county-level cities. Xuzhou has a temperate monsoon climate with four distinct seasons. There are yunlong lake, Yunlong Mountain, Peng Zu Garden, Chu Tomb, Circus Stage, Pan 'an Lake and other tourist attractions.

Natural resources in Xuzhou

1, land resources

According to the different soil forming conditions, processes, soil structures and properties, the soils in Xuzhou are mainly divided into six categories: brown soil, cinnamon soil, purple soil, fluvo-aquic soil, mortar black soil and paddy soil. Among them, brown soil and cinnamon soil are zonal soils in warm temperate humid, semi-humid climate and deciduous vegetation environment, covering an area of 33.9 thousand hectares and 77.5 thousand hectares respectively; Tidal soil is the main soil type in alluvial plain in this area, covering an area of 649,900 hectares, accounting for 79.5% of the total soil area in the city.

2. Water resources

There are 2 large reservoirs, 5 medium reservoirs and 84 small reservoirs in Xuzhou, with a total storage capacity of 33/kloc-0.0 million cubic meters. There are many water conservancy facilities such as bridges, culverts, canals and gates, and a multi-functional water network system such as flood control, irrigation, shipping and aquatic products has been initially formed. In 2022, the total water resources in Xuzhou City was 3.067 billion cubic meters, and the total water consumption was 3.933 billion cubic meters.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xuzhou.