Liuyang City is located in the northern section of Luo Xiao Mountain in the east of Hunan Province, and is adjacent to Tonggu County and Wanzai County in Yichun City, Jiangxi Province in the east. It borders Pingxiang City, Liling City and Zhuzhou City in Jiangxi Province in the south, Changsha City in the west and Pingjiang County in the north. The east-west width of the city is105.8km, the north-south length is 80.9km, and the land area is 5007.75km2. ..

Liuyang City is located in the northern section of the shogunate mountain range-Luo Xiao Mountain range, which belongs to the hilly area of the shogunate Li Anyun. The terrain is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, the mountains are clear, and the valleys and ridges are parallel and staggered, which constitutes the geographical landscape of the northwest-southeast anticline mountain. There are mainly three mountain ranges in the territory: Li Anyun Mountain, Dawei Mountain and Jiuling Mountain, with the highest point of Qixingling, the main peak of Dawei Mountain, at an altitude of 1607.9 meters.

Physical geography of Liuyang city

Liuyang city belongs to the humid climate of mid-subtropical monsoon, with low mountains in the eastern half, cool in summer and frozen in winter, less light and heat, and more precipitation; It is less cold in winter in the central and southern regions, and it is extremely hot in ciel phantomhive, with moderate light and heat and moderate rain. The Laodao River basin in the northwest belongs to the climate type of hilly basin in central Hunan. The annual average temperature in the city is 17.4℃, and it is the hottest in July, with a monthly average temperature of 28.4℃.

Liuyang City has three major water systems, namely Liuyang River, Laodao River and Nanchuan River. There are 1300 tributaries, with a total length of about 2200 kilometers, which flow into Xiangjiang River respectively. Liuyang River is a first-class tributary of Xiangjiang River, and its source is two streams, one from the north and the other from the south of Dawei Mountain. From the Daxi River, the total length is 222km, the length in Liuyang is 175.8km, and the drainage area is 32 1 1 km2.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Liuyang City