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Jiangsu, China?!?!
BY VICTOR FULCHER
Location. Jiangsu is located at:
Lat.30° 46' to 35° 07' NLong.116° 22' to 121° 55' E
Jiangsu borders Shandong in the north, Anhui to the west, and Zhejiang and Shanghai to the south. Jiangsu has a coastline of over one thousand kilometers along the Yellow Sea, and the Yangtze River passes through its southern parts
Where is Jiangsu, again?
Right here
Physical Characteristics Bodies of water: Taihu Lake, Hongze Lake, Lake
Gaoyou, Lake Luoma, Yangcheng Lake Landforms: Flat and low, with plains covering
about 68% of its total area (water covers another 18 percent)
Climate: Jiangsu has a warm, humid, and subtropical climate zones
Natural Vegetation: Cotton, soybeans, peanuts, sesame, ambary hemp, tea, peppermint, spearmint, bamboo, medicinal herbs, apples, pears, peaches, loquats, ginkgo, and silkworms.
Human Characteristics
Population: 75,500,000 Ethnic Groups: Han Chinese, Hui,
and Manchus Language: Chinese language,
Mandarin, and Wu. Culture: Their culture is more
southern than the rest and the Wu. Other parts of the province is "Jianghuai Culture"
Economy: Command Economy Government: Communist
Functional Major Trade Partners: Dusseldorf/Germany,
Paris/France, Chelmsford/UK, Tilburg/the Netherlands and Stockholm/Sweden
Metropolitan Cities Changzhou, Lianyungang, Zhenjiang,
Zhangjiagang, Changshu, and those are just the ones with the longest names!
Major Rivers - Drainage: The Yangtze River
Formal Climate Regions:
-2 to 4°C in January and 26 to 30°C in July
Land Area: about 100,000 km2
Human/Environment Interaction
Dams: none Canals: The
town of Suzhou has so many that it is called the "Venice of the East", and another Canal system is The Grand Canal of China
Irrigation: North Jiangsu Irrigation Main Channel
Another Picture!!!
Movement of goods Foods: Jiangsu Cuisine, Suzhou,
Nanjing, Wuxi Trade goods: coal, petroleum, and
natural gas Manufactured goods: machinery,
electronics, chemicals, and automobiles
Works Cited "Jiangsu." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
Web. 28 Feb. 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiangsu>." Jiangsu." Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online School Edition.Encyclopædia Britannica, 2011. Web. 1 Mar. 2011."Map of Jiangsu Province, China." Map of China - 1000 China Maps. Web. 03 Mar. 2011. <http://www.maps-of-china.net/p_jiangsu_map.html