Ganxian District is located in the south of Jiangxi Province and the east of Ganzhou City. It governs 19 townships and 276 administrative villages, and is known as the "first county in Ganjiang River". Ganxian District is adjacent to DuDu and Anyuan in the east, Xinfeng in the south, Nankang and zhanggong district in Ganzhou in the west and Wan 'an and Xingguo in the north. The field is shaped like a person's ear. The southernmost tip of the county seat is Shuikou Village, Hanfang Town, 78 kilometers away from the county seat; The northernmost is Jiankeng Village, Egret Township, 69 kilometers away from the county seat; The easternmost point is Gumao Village, Sanxi Township, 56 kilometers away from the center of the district; The westernmost part is Huxi Village, Sandi Town, 63 kilometers away from the center of the district.
Ganxian District is about 9 1km long from north to south and 34 km wide from east to west, with a total area of 2,993.09 square kilometers, equivalent to 299,300 hectares, accounting for 7.6% of the total area of Ganzhou City and 1.8% of the total area of Jiangxi Province. Meilin Town, the resident of Ganxian District People's Government, is located in the west of the central area, 7 kilometers away from Ganzhou City, 430 kilometers away from Nanchang, the provincial capital, and 2484 kilometers away from Beijing, the capital.
Topography of Ganxian county
There are many hills and mountains in Ganxian. The terrain is high in the southeast, low in the north-central, with overlapping ups and downs in the east and west, and there are belt-shaped valleys in the mountains, with an altitude of 500- 1000 meters. Most of the north-central part is hilly, with large and small rivers criss-crossing and cutting into large and small hilly basins. The landform in the territory belongs to the hilly terrain of middle and low mountains.
The difference of weathering resistance and erosion resistance of different lithology forms different landforms. Metamorphic rock areas are generally strong in weathering resistance, mostly high mountains, with good vegetation conditions and no obvious loss. The whole area is about 1565.3 square kilometers, accounting for 52.4% of the total area. Granite area is easy to be weathered, with thick weathered layer, mostly dome and low hills, poor vegetation conditions and serious soil erosion. The whole area is about 1057.5 square kilometers, accounting for 35.4% of the total area.
Lithology and structure laid the foundation for the occurrence and development of Ganxian landform. The southeast and northeast edges are high and steep, and gradually incline to the northwest. The mountains overlap and twist. There are four main streams of Pingjiang River, Taojiang River, Gongshui River and Ganjiang River, which are intertwined and cut into Ganzhou Basin, Taojiang River, Korea, Tiancun and other large and small basins and mountainous belt valleys. The main landform types in the territory are Zhongshan, low mountains, high hills, low mountains and hills.
Reference to the above contents: Ganxian District People's Government-Brief Introduction of Ganxian District