Jinan is known as the "Spring City" because there are many springs in China, including "72 springs". Known as "lotus flowers on all sides and willows on three sides, one city has mountains and half a city has lakes". The eight scenic spots in Jinan are world-famous. It is a tourist city with unique characteristics of "mountains, springs, lakes, rivers and cities", a national historical and cultural city, the first batch of excellent tourist cities in China, and prehistoric culture.
Jinan is connected to the capital economic circle in the north, the Yangtze River Delta economic circle in the south, Shandong Peninsula and Central China in the east and west. It is an important intersection of Bohai Economic Zone and Beijing-Shanghai Economic Axis, and one of the central cities of Bohai Economic Zone and the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River.
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The geographical environment of Jinan:
1, location domain
Jinan is located in the central and western Shandong Province, with Mount Tai in the south, the Yellow River in the north and mountains and rivers in the back. It borders Liaocheng in the southwest, Dezhou and Binzhou in the north, Zibo in the east and Taian in the south. Jinan is located at 36 40 ′ north latitude and117 00 ′ east longitude, at the junction of hilly areas in central and southern Shandong and alluvial plains in northwest Shandong, with high terrain in the south and low terrain in the north.
2. Terrain
The topography of Jinan can be divided into three zones: the Yellow River in the north, the piedmont plain in the middle and the hilly and mountainous areas in the south. The main peaks in the territory are Changchengling, Paomaling, Ladder Mountain and Heiniuzhai. There are more than 3,000 square kilometers of mountains and hills and 5,000 square kilometers of plains. The highest altitude is 1 108.4m, the lowest altitude is 5m, and the height difference between north and south is 1 100m.
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