Jinan, also known as Quancheng, is a prefecture-level city, provincial capital, sub-provincial city, mega-city and the core city of Jinan metropolitan area under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province. It is also the central city of the southern wing of Bohai Rim approved by the State Council. As of 20 19, the whole city has jurisdiction over 2 counties in 10, with a total area of 10244.45 square kilometers.

Jinan is located in the east of China, the central and western Shandong, and the southeast edge of North China Plain, and belongs to the continental monsoon climate zone of warm temperate zone. Monsoon is obvious, with four distinct seasons, with drought and little rain in spring, warm and rainy in summer, cool and dry in autumn and cold and little snow in winter. Jinan is an important intersection of the Army Headquarters of the Northern Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Bohai Economic Zone and the Beijing-Shanghai Economic Axis, and it is one of the important transportation hubs in East China.

Brief introduction of Shandong province

Shandong Province is the eastern coastal province of China, referred to as Shandong for short. It is the capital of Jinan and borders Hebei, Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces from north to south. Shandong is 72 1.03 km long from east to west and 437.28 km long from north to south, with a land area of155800km2.

The mountains in central Shandong are prominent, the southwest and northwest are low-lying and flat, and the east is gentle and hilly. The terrain is dominated by mountains and hills, with Shandong Peninsula in the east, North China Plain in the west and north, and mountains and hills in the south-central part, forming a landscape with mountains and hills as the skeleton and criss-crossing plain basins, including mountains, hills, platforms, basins, plains, lakes and other types. It spans the five major water systems of Huaihe River, Yellow River, Haihe River, Xiaoqing River and Jiaodong, and has a warm temperate monsoon climate.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Jinan City