Anhui was established as a province in the 6th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (A.D. 1667), and its initials were Anhui. Anhui is called "Anhui" because it has an ancient Anhui country and its mountains and rivers. Anhui Province is an important birthplace of prehistoric civilization in China. Renzidong, Fanchang County discovered the site of human activities about 2.5 million years ago.

The Paleolithic site of "Hexian Ape Man" excavated in Longtan Cave of Hexian County, 300,000-400,000 years ago, shows that human beings lived and multiplied in this land of Anhui in ancient times. Haozhou was once the ministry of Tang Cheng in Shang Dynasty, and Gu Shouchun (now Shouxian) was the capital of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

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Anhui is located in the east of China and belongs to the eastern economic zone of China. Geographical location: east longitude11454'-11937', north latitude 29 4 1'-34 38'.

Located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, in the hinterland of the Yangtze River Delta, with the east as the center, along the river and facing the sea, Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the east, Hubei and Henan in the west, Jiangxi in the south and Shandong in the north, it is 450 kilometers wide from east to west and 570 kilometers long from north to south. The jurisdiction area is 14.0 1 10,000 square kilometers, and the land area is139,400 square kilometers, accounting for 1.45% of the whole country, ranking 22nd.

topography

There are various types of plains, plateaus (hillsides), hills and mountains in Anhui Province, which can be divided into five landform areas, namely Huaihe Plain, Jianghuai Plateau Hilly Area, West Anhui Hilly Area, Riverside Plain and South Anhui Hilly Area, accounting for 30.48%, 65,438+07.56%, 9.99% and 24.938+0 respectively.

Anhui has Tianmu Mountain-Baiji Mountain, Huangshan Mountain and Jiuhua Mountain, and Xin 'anjiang River, Shuiyangjiang River and Qingyijiang River Valley are among the three mountains. The terrain gradually descends from the mountain core to the valley, and it is composed of Zhongshan, low mountains, hills, platforms and plains. Most of the mountains are distributed in the northeast and near the east-west direction, and the highest peak is Lotus Peak in Huangshan, with an altitude of 1873 meters.

Large and small basins are embedded in mountains, among which Xiukuang basin is the largest.

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