| Study in Beijing |
Beijing, which is also abbreviated as "Jing," is
the capital of the People's Republic of China. The political and cultural
center of the country, it is also one of the international communication hubs
of China.
Beijing is located on the northwest edge of the
North China Plain, adjoining Tianjin City to its east and Hebei Province
to its north, west and south. Beijing
has 16 districts and two counties under its jurisdiction, covering an area of
16,807.8 square kilometers.
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| Study in Tianjin |
Tianjin is located in the
northeast of the North China Plain, facing the Bohai
Sea in the east, and seated against Mt. Yanshan
in the north. Its coastal line stretches about 133 km long. It covers an area
of 11,305 square kilometers. The name of Tianjin
first appeared in the early years of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty,
meaning the ferry port used by an emperor. In 1404, it became a military
position of strategic importance, and construction of city walls and garrison
installations began.
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| | Study in Hebei Province |
The province is
located in the northern part of the North China Plain extending into the Inner
Mongolian Plateau. Beijing, the capital of China, and Tianjin,
the important trading port in the north of China, are situated in the center
of the province, although are not part of it. It adjoins Liaoning
and Inner Mongolia in the north, Shanxi
Province in the west and Henan and Shandong
provinces in the south. The Bohai
Sea lies to the east of
the province. Its coastline extends 487 km, and the total area of the province
is 190,000 square km.
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| Study in Shanxi Province |
Shanxi Province is situated in the middle of the Yellow
River valley, Its location west of the Taihang
Mountains gives the province its name,
Shanxi,
meaning "west of the mountain." Shanxi province is in the Bohai Rim Economic
Development Zone in north China,
covers an area of 156,000 square km, with forests constituting 20 percent, or
about 3.44 million hectares.
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| | Study in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region | | Inner Mongolia, China's northern border autonomous region, features a
long, narrow strip of land sloping from northeast to southwest. It stretches
2,400 km from west to east and 1,700 km from north to south. Inner Mongolia
traverses between northeast, north, and northwest China. The third largest among China's
provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, the region covers an area of
1.18 million square km, or 12.3 percent of the country's territory. It
neighbors eight provinces and regions in its south, east and west and Mongolia and Russia in the north, with a
borderline of 4,200 km.
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Study in Liaoning Province
Liaoning Province, of which the capital city is Dalian, is situated in the south of Northeast
China. Liaoning is in a temperate
zone and adjoins Jilin and Hebei
provinces and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and is bordered along the Yalu River
by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The coastline of Liaoning
Province is 2,178 kilometers long -
nearly 12 percent of China's
total. The hilly regions in east Liaoning
are the main area for forest. Adjoining the long, narrow costal plains (usually
called the Liaoxi Corridor) is the main road for Northeast China, linking with North China. Liaohe Plain in Central Liaoning, as a part
of the Northeastern China Plain, has sedimentary deposits from the Liaohe River
and other tributaries. The plain has abundant water and fertile soil, and is
the main farming area and commodity grain base in Liaoning Province.
| Study in Jilin Province
Jilin province is located
in the central part of Northeast China, adjoining Heilongjiang
Province in the north, Lianing Province in the south, and the Inner
Mongolian Autonomous Region in the west. It lies in the hinterland of the
northeastern Asia composed of Japan, Russia, the Democratic People's Republic
of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the northeast part of China,
adjacent to Russia in the east, and opposite to the DPRK in the southeast across
the Tumen and Yalu rivers, its territory covers 187,400 square kilometers,
accounting for 2 percent of the nation's total. The land is high in the
southeastern part and low in the northwestern, with a vast plain lying in its
mid-west.
| Study in Heilongjiang Province
Heilongjiang Province, abbreviated as "Hei" in
Chinese, is located in the Northeast of China, at the highest latitudes and the
northernmost end of the country. It neighbors Russia
across the Heilongjiang and Wusuli rivers
running in its north and east respectively; in the west, it adjoins the Inner
Mongolian Autonomous Region; and to its south is Jilin Province.
It covers an area of 454,000 square km, accounting for 4.7 percent of the
nation's total.
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