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Hubei Province
Population: 49.9 million
Urban population: 23.6 million
Nationalities: Han, Tujia, Hui, Manchu, Miao, and Mongolian
Area: 180,000 square kilometers
Climatic features:
subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; changeable weather in spring; humid, hot summers; strong sunlight in autumn; dry winters; frequent droughts and floods
Average temperature:
1 - 6 centigrade degree in January, 24 - 30 centigrade degree in July; high temperatures on the northern side of the southeastern mountains and in the Three Gorges.
Annual average rainfall:
750-1,500 mm; high precipitation in the southeastern and southwestern mountains
Physical features:
high in the west and low in the east; mountainous and hilly except in the south
Mountains:
Wudang, Jingshan, and Wushan Mountains in the west; Dashennongjia Mountain in the Shennongjia Forest Region, among the western mountains; Tongbai and Dabie Mountains along the northeastern border; Mufu Mountains along the Hubei-Jiangxi border
Rivers:
Yangtze River and its tributary the Hanshui River
Lakes: Honghu, Liangzi, Futou, Zhangdu, Longgan, Changhu, and Diaocha Lakes (Hubei is known as the land of a thousand lakes)
Products:
rice, wheat, sorghum, millet, potatoes, corn, rape, sesame, tea, soybeans, peanuts, sugar cane; cotton, ramie, silk cocoons; sun-cured tobacco; freshwater products, such as blunt-snout bream, lotus seeds, water chestnuts, lotus roots, pearls, waterfowl; peaches, yangtao, oranges, chestnuts; tung oil, silver fungus, fir, Chinese tallow tree, metasequoia; iron, copper, rock salt, plaster stone
Administrative divisions:
1 autonomous prefecture, 25 cities, 51 counties, 2 autonomous counties, and 1 forest district
Capital: Wuhan
Neighboring areas:
Anhui, Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Henan Provinces
Major cities:
Wuhan, Huangshi, Yichang, Shashi, Xiangfan, Shiyan, Enshi, Jiangling
Tourist attractions:
Gezhouba Dam project near Yichang; Shennongjia Natural Reserve in western Hubei
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