The province is about 595 kilometers long from east to west and 509 kilometers long from north to south, with a total area of 176 167 square kilometers, accounting for 1.8% of the national territory. The geographical environment is unique.
Guizhou is located in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, with high terrain in the west and low terrain in the east, which inclines from the middle to the north, east and south, with an average elevation of about 1 100 meters. Guizhou Plateau is mountainous and is known as "eight mountains, one water and one field". Geomorphology can be divided into three basic types: plateau mountains, hills and basins, of which mountains and hills account for 92.5%.
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Guizhou Province, referred to as "Guizhou" or "Guangxi" for short, is located in the southeast of southwest China, bordering Hunan in the east, Guangxi in the south, Yunnan in the west and Sichuan and Chongqing in the north.
The whole province covers an area of176,200 square kilometers. By the end of 438+08 in 2065, there were 9 cities and prefectures in Guizhou Province (including 6 prefecture-level cities and 3 autonomous prefectures). 88 counties, cities, districts and special zones (including 9 county-level cities, 52 counties, 1 1 autonomous counties, 1 special zones and 15 districts); 138 1 townships, towns and streets (including 837 townships, 124 townships, 193 ethnic townships and 227 streets).
Guizhou Provincial People's Government Network-Geography