Zhejiang Province, referred to as "Zhejiang" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC), with Hangzhou as its capital. Located in the southeast coast of China, the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, bordering the East China Sea in the east, Fujian Province in the south, Anhui Province and Jiangxi Province in the west, and Shanghai and Jiangsu Province in the north, with a land area of 6,543,805,500 square kilometers.
By 2022, there will be 1 1 prefecture-level cities, 37 municipal districts, 20 county-level cities and 33 counties (including 1 autonomous county) in Zhejiang Province, with a permanent population of 65.77 million and an urban population of 48.26 million, with an urbanization rate of 73.4%.
Qiantang River, the largest river in Zhejiang Province, is named Jiang because of its twists and turns, also known as Zhejiang, and the whole province is named after Jiang. In the land area of Zhejiang Province, mountains account for 74.6%, water accounts for 5. 1%, and flat land accounts for 20.3%, so there is a saying of "seven mountains, one water and two fields". Zhejiang has a sea area of 260,000 square kilometers, 2,878 islands with an area of more than 500 square meters and 26 islands with an area of 10 square kilometers, making it the province with the largest number of islands in China.
topography
In Zhejiang Province, mountainous areas account for 74.6%, water surface accounts for 5. 1%, and flat land accounts for 20.3%, so there are "seven mountains, one water and two fields". Zhejiang has a sea area of 260,000 square kilometers, 2,878 islands with an area of more than 500 square meters and 26 islands with an area of 10 square kilometers, making it the province with the largest number of islands in China.
The topography of Zhejiang is stepped from southwest to northeast, with low alluvial plain in the northeast, hills and coastal plain in the east, hills and basins in the middle and mountains and hills in the southwest. It can be roughly divided into six topographical areas: northern Zhejiang plain, southwestern Zhejiang hilly basin, southeastern Zhejiang coastal plain and coastal islands.