The general situation of Chongqing

Chongqing is municipality by central authorities. It Is situated at the transition of Qinghai-Tibet Plain and the plain of the center or last Changjiang river , located the place of convergence of Yangtze River, and the Jialing River. The distance from capital Beijing 1,442 kilometers at the east north. It is situated between the east longitude 105¡ã17 ' ~ 110¡ã11 ', north latitude 28¡ã10 ' ~ 32¡ã13. East neighbour Hubei Province, Hunan Province, south depend on Guizhou Province, west meets Sichuan, north continually Sichuan, Shanxi Province. The stretch over 470 kilometers east and west, north and south biggest latitude 450 kilometers, area of jurisdiction covers 82,403 square kilometers, urban district area 600 square kilometers, built-up urban area area 165 square kilometers. Presently governs the Chongqing central area, the north of the Changjiang River area, Shaping field area, Jiulong slope area, the Nanan area, crosses the oralis region, the Beibei area, WanSheng area, the Twin bridge area, north greatly the Banan area, north of Chongqing area, Wan Zhou area, the Fuling area, Yongchuan, the Jiangjin city, the hechuan city, the Nanchuan city, Qijiang County, Changshou County, Bishan County, Tongliang County, Dazu County, Rongchang County, Tongnan County, Zhong County, Kai County, Yunyang County, Fengjie County, Wushan County, Wuxi County, Liangping County, Chengkou County, Fengdu County, Wulong County, Dianjiang County, qianjiang xina, Shizhu County, Pengshui County, Youyang County, Xiushan County and so on 13 areas 4 cities 23 counties.
Municipal government in Chongqing central area. Total population 30.228 million, city population 2.42 million people. The inhabitant majority is the Han Nationality. It is situated at the mountainous area, The topography is high at northeast and southeast, southwest is low, northeast is the Daba mountain, Wushan, southeast is the Dalou, the Wuling, southwest is east of the Sichuan basin. Elevation 75 ~2,797 meters, urban district elevation is more than 200 rice meters. Terrain is complex, mountainous region, many knoll, the level dam are few, mountainous region accounts for 75.8, knoll accounts for 18.2, the plain a little high accounts for 3.6 and the plain is 24. Monsoon subtropical damp climate, winter is warm and summer is hot, moist cloudy, water is rich and the temperature is high mostly, rain and hot at the same season, fog many, sunshine few, river valley burning hot, mountainous region cool, The eastern part is more multi- hot dry, The west is the multi-summers dry, annual average temperature is 18 ¡æ about.
The center city of Chongqing is surrounded by Yangtze River, Jialing River, clamps the two rivers, supports hills, beautiful scenery, the scenery is unique, each kind of building is situated at the foot of a hill and beside a stream, row after row, scattered and organized, the element by beautiful "the mountain city", "the river city" is celebrated worldwide. Especially the beautiful enchantingly "the mountain city night scene", whenever the curtain of night arrives, the lamplights of ten thousand families in city and the water color skylight enhance one another's beauty, splendid sight like the river of stars, grand sight ,may be called the marvelous sight. Beautiful mountains and rivers geography has bred lots of mountain, the water, the forest, the spring, the waterfall, the canyon, the hole to a body as unusual grand natural landscape.
The three-dimensional gallery Three Gorges of the Yangtze River which have the great reputation is high peak to rise steeply, the cliff confronts, famous by Qu Tangis grand, Wu Gorge is beautiful, the west of mausoleum is danger. differ in thousands of ways, each charm, has the class crystal verdant green the Daning River small Three Gorges, the MaDu river is smaller Three Gorges.
Tang Dynasty great poet Li Bai Sings in a loud voice at the Three Gorges by "Depart from Baidi city in colorful cloud in the morning, back to Jiangling in one day ,when apes crying at both sides of beach , the light vessel crossed millions of mountain.¡±, keeps the rhyme century. The mysterious physical geography also accomplished the place concentrated by Nanchuan Jinfo mountain which famed of the natural gene treasure house , the only fortunately survives around biggest virgin forest in the same latitude area of world and so on natural resource and mountain; Wu river, Jialing river, Daling river and so on rivers and streams canyon scenery and as well as longevity lake, small South China Sea, blue Long Lake and so on lake scenery.