Coastline:
2,200 kilometers long

Climatic features:
subtropical, monsoonal climate; clear-cut seasons; plum rains from early June to early July; droughts in July and August; typhoons from late August to late September

Average temperature:
2 - 8 degree in Jan, 27 - 30 degree in July; high temperatures in the central basin.

Annual average rainfall:
850 - 1,700 mm; low precipitation in the north

Physical features:
lowlands in the northeast and mountains in the southwest; 70 percent mountains and hills; faces the East China Sea; the Hangzhou Gulf at the mouth of the Qiantang River is closed in by the Zhoushan Islands in the east.

Rivers:
Qiantang River in the north; Oujiang River in the south

Products:
rice, wheat, corn, potatoes, sugar cane, rape, sesame, peanuts, soybeans, tea; ramie, jute, silk cocoons, cotton, bamboo; tea-oil tree, tung tree, Chinese tallow tree; oranges, red bayberries, walnuts, Chinese torreya, loquats, peaches, persimmons, gingko, mushrooms, dried bamboo shoots; sea products including yellow croaker, hairtail, cuttlefish, shellfish, laver, kelp; alum, fluorite, salt

Specialties:
Fuchunjiang shad, Jinhua ham, Longjing tea, Huyang sheep

Administrative divisions:
18 cities, 57 counties, and 1 autonomous county

Neighboring areas:
Fujian, Jiangxi, Anhui, and Jiangsu Provinces: Shanghai Municipality

Major cities:
Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou, Shaoxing, Jinhua, Jiaxing, Huzhou

Tourist attractions:
West Lake in Hangzhou; Mount Putuo of the Zhoushan Islands, famous for its Buddhist temples; the tide waves of the Qiantang River