Area: 66,000 square kilometers

Capital City: Yinchuan

Neighboring provinces: Shaanxi and Gansu provinces; Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Altitude: mountains is 2,000 meters ; plains is 1,000 - 1,200 meters.

Population: 5.6 million

Urban Population: 1.7 million

Nationalities: Han, Hui and Manchu

Climatic Features: temperate, continental climate with long cold winter and short hot summer;strong winds.

Average Temperature: -10C to -7C in January, 17C to 24C in July

Annual Average Rainfall: 190 - 700 mm; precipitation increasing from north to south

Physical Features: Loess Plateau in the south and east; Ningxia or Yinchuan Plainin the north; the Yellow River traverses the Ningxia Plain; Helan Mountains along the western border; Liupan Mountains in the southwest

Main Products: wheat, millet, potatoes, corn, sorghum, broomcorn millet, rape, soybeans; flax, hemp; plaster stone, salt, iron

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