Luoyang, referred to as Luoyi and Luo Jing for short, is a prefecture-level city in Henan Province and a sub-central city of Central Plains urban agglomeration. The total area of Luoyang is 15230 square kilometers, of which the urban area is 2229 square kilometers, the east-west length is about 179 kilometers, and the north-south width is about 168 kilometers. It spans the north and south banks of the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, bordering Zhengzhou in the east, Sanmenxia in the west, Jiaozuo in the north and Pingdingshan and Nanyang in the south.
Luoyang is high in the west and low in the east, with criss-crossing mountains and hills, with complex terrain, including 45.5 1% in mountainous areas, 40.73% in hilly areas and 65.438+03.8% in plain areas, surrounded by Yushan, Mangshan, Qingyaoshan, Jingzishan, Zhoushan, Sakura Mountain, Longmen Mountain, Xiangshan, Wanan Mountain and Sakura Mountain.
Luoyang has a warm temperate continental monsoon climate, with an annual average temperature of 12.2-24.6℃, a frost-free period of more than 2 10 days, an annual precipitation of 528-800 mm, an annual sunshine of 2200-2300 hours and an annual average humidity of 60-70%. The main natural disasters are drought, waterlogging, hail, rainstorm, dry hot wind and so on.