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Shanxi Province, referred to as "Jin" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Taiyuan as its capital. It is located in the north of China, bordering Hebei Province in the east, Shaanxi Province in the west, Henan Province in the south and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in the north, with the latitude between 34 34' and 40 44'.
East longitude11014'-14 33', with a total area of 156700 square kilometers. By the end of 10 in 2022, Shanxi Province * * * had jurisdiction over1/prefecture-level cities, 26 municipal districts,1/county-level cities and 80 counties. By the end of 2022, the resident population of Shanxi Province was 3.481.35 million.
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. There are ups and downs in the plateau and vertical and horizontal valleys. Landforms include mountains, hills, plateaus, basins and platforms, of which mountains and hills account for 80%.
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. Shaanxi is located in Qin Jin Cultural District, and its historical representative culture is "Sanjin Culture".
In 2022, the regional GDP of Shanxi Province was 2564.259 billion yuan, of which the added value of the primary industry was 65.438+034.040 billion yuan, the added value of the secondary industry was 65.438+0384.085 billion yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry was 65.438+004/kloc-0.34 million yuan.
Archaeology shows that in ancient times, southern Shanxi was the birthplace of human beings. The discovery of the "Century Shu Ape" fossil in Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City has advanced the appearance time of apes by 6.5438+million years. About 6.5438+0.8 million years ago in the Paleolithic Age, primitive people flourished in southern Shanxi. Among them, the burnt bones found in Xihoudu Cultural Site in Ruicheng County of Yuncheng pushed forward the history of human use of fire discovered in China by 6.5438+0 million years.