Jincheng, as a place name, has a history of nearly two thousand years, which is a special case of place name culture in China. Its initial use began in the third year of Tang Wude, when Song Taiping was rejuvenating the country. In the book Taiping Universe, it is said that Zhao, Wei and Han moved to Jin separately, so it is called Jincheng.

The whole territory of Jincheng is located in the middle reaches of Jincheng basin, and the urban scenery of Jincheng is the middle and lower reaches of Danhe River and Qinhe River. The plane outline of the whole city is slightly oval, and the terrain of the whole region is dustpan-shaped, with high in the north and low in the south. Plains, hills and mountains account for 12.9%, 28.5% and 58.6% of the city's total area respectively. Among them, the plain 122 1.6 square kilometers, the hills are 2704 square kilometers, and the mountains are 5564.4 square kilometers.

Brief introduction of Shanxi

Shanxi, referred to as "Jin" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), with Taiyuan as its capital. Located in North China, it borders Hebei in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Henan in the south and Inner Mongolia in the north, between 34 34 ′-40 44 ′ north latitude and 65 438+00 65 438+04 ′ east longitude.

Shanxi Province is a parallelogram inclined from northeast to southwest, which is a typical loess-covered mountain plateau with high terrain in northeast and low terrain in southwest. The interior of the plateau is undulating and the valleys are vertical and horizontal. The landforms are mountains, hills, terraces and plains, and the mountainous area accounts for 80. 1% of the total area. Shanxi province spans the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the rivers belong to the self-produced outflow system. Shanxi Province is located in the hinterland of the mid-latitude zone and belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanxi.