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Xi'an geographical divisionsXi'an City in China's hinterland of the Commissioner of the Yellow River Basin in the central basin, longitude 107 ° 40 '~ 109 ° 49' north latitude and 33 ° 39 '~ 34 ° 45' between.To the East River and the Ba River is the source for the mountain community, and Wuhua County, Weinan City, to City, Luonan County phase grounding; West to Taibai Mountain and Green of the Loess Plateau for the Taiwan industry, and Meixian County, bordering Taibai Xian; south North Qinling the main ridge, with the Foping County, Ningshan County, Zuo Shuixian boundaries; Weihe River to the north, northeast across the Weihe River, and Xianyang City and the Yangling District, Sanyuan, Jingyang, Xingping, powers and the Fufeng County and other counties , Fu County adjacent.Wang Dan in the Qinling mountain range south of Xi'an, ridgelines 2000-2800 meters above sea level, is China's geographical North and the South's important boundaries.Xi'an Xian Xia 9 District 4 County (New City, Beilin Qu, Lianhu District, Baqiao District, Weiyang Qu, Yanta District, Yan Liang, Lintong District, Changan Qu, Lantian Xian, the Zhouzhi County, Huxian, Gao Lingxian ), The total area of 10,108 square kilometers, the population of 7.25 million.The built-up areas 222 square kilometers, the Urban Area population of 5.163 million people.Here a mild climate, four distinct seasons, rainfall appropriate, sufficient sunshine, with superior natural environment and rich tourist resources.North of Xi'an, Shangan the Loess Plateau border areas, from Yangsan, Huanglong Mountain, Yaowang Shan, Long Shan mountains of the northern mountains, and should be relatively remote Qinling mountains, a common around the Guanzhong Plain of natural barriers.Yellow River's biggest tributary of Weihe River running through Guanzhong Plain.Guanzhong Plain from the Weihe River and its numerous tributaries of the alluvial formation and thus also known as the Weihe River Plain.It Baoji west, east to the Yellow River, known as "800, Qinchuan."Xi'an's geological structure and cross-slot in the Qinling Fold Belt and the North China platform two units.About 1.3 billion years ago before a period of Yanshan movement across the Qinling Mountains in the north fault, since about 300 million years ago before the late Tertiary, the fault to the south of the Qinling fold slot with the new tectonic movement Very active, Yang Shan-North or South prone sharp drop, bringing up the Qinling Mountains at the same time, the fault belongs to the north of the Weihe River in northern China and Taiwan continue to fault settlement, the wind plot and the Weihe River alluvial loess coverage under the common form of Weihe River Plain .Xi'an City in the altitude difference between the disparity between the cities ranked the highest in the country.Towering Junqiao, Qunfeng competing show the Qinling Mountains and forthright stretch, Vista Woye the clear limits of the Weihe River Plain, a landscape of the main Xi'an.The main ridge of the Qinling Mountains from 2000 to 2800 meters above sea level, southwest extremity of Fengdian Taibai Mountain 3,767 meters above sea level, is the highest mountain in central China.Weihe Plain 400 to 700 meters above sea level, including the Northeast-Wei riverbed lowest elevation 345 meters.Xi'an City will be built on the Weihe Plain on the two bands.Xi'an ancient "water around 8 Chang'an" reputation.Weihe River has, Jinghe River, Bahe, Fenghe River, «River, the river floods, Heihe, Ishikawa River and other rivers 54, with the exception of the Weihe, Jinghe River and Ishikawa for the river crossing, the rest is in the rivers, both originate in the Qinling mountain Qiu and Li Shan Plateau, the Yellow River Basin is the Weihe River.Urban water supply mainly depends on the Heihe River Water Diversion Project, the daily water supply 1.1 million tons.Rich plant resources.There are 138 wild plants Branch, 681 genera and 2,224 kinds, which have higher economic value of more than 1,200 species of seed plants in China is an important "gene bank" one.The main crops are wheat, corn, rice, beans and potato, economic crops to cotton, rapeseed, vegetables, fruits and mainly, peanuts, sweet potatoes, sugar beet, tobacco, Bast Fiber, and so are planted.Fruit mainly apples, peaches, pears, pomegranates, grapes, Shaguo, plums, hawthorn, date and persimmon, and so on.Shanhuo specialty products mainly kiwi, chestnut, walnut, pepper, apricot, Rhus vernicifera, Eucommia, black edible fungus, cinnamon, rosin, and so on.1,000 varieties of medicinal plants species, has been the use of a 500-800.Domesticated animals are cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, bees, silkworm, which Qinchuan cattle and donkeys in the customs reputation at home and abroad.Distribution in the Qinling mountain range of wild animals.Birds have Zhu », ring-necked pheasants, Caragana, blood pheasants, more than 177 kinds of azaleas, and so on.55 mammal species, as a country to protect rare animals like giant panda, golden monkey and Takin, second class protected animals Banling, Lie Ling, the swan, Jinji, three categories of protected animals and zygomatic, leopard, the cat, and so on.Fish mainly silver carp, carp, Fang, such as fish, mountain streams in wildlife Wawa Yu was listed as national protection of precious animals.Xi'an complex geological history of the development, construction and diverse types.Qinling mountain area of igneous, metamorphic and the Weihe River basin, the new generation of very thick sedimentary layer, for a variety of metals, non-metallic and energy resources laid the foundation for the gathering.The types of minerals have been identified a total of 47 kinds, of which 21 kinds of metal ores, non-metallic mineral 22, two kinds of energy resources, mineral other two kinds.Major metal mine are: iron, manganese, chromium, titanium, copper, lead, zinc, zinc and copper, molybdenum, gold, tungsten, uranium and high-alumina mineral raw materials.Non-metallic miners have: marble, feldspar, dolomite, limestone cement, graphite, construction gravel, quartz veins, "Lan Tianyu," sand-stone, Liu Kuang, and so on.Xi'an geothermal resources widely distributed, good water quality, water, only the city can develop geothermal area of about 780 square kilometers.The city's geothermal areas, mainly in the southern suburbs of the city and the East District, «River, Bahe, Changan Qu Wei Qu, Zhouzhi County mazhaozhen to Lam Tin-bath town, and the Lintong Lishan in the north, such as five zones.Has been the exploration of geothermal shallow, deep in more than 100 points, usually in water temperature above 40 ℃, some as high as 96 ℃.Fluoride in the high-temperature hot water, acid, sulphur, boric acid content, such as health care have been met or exceeded mine water content, with high medical value.Xi'an population as at the end of 2005, Xi'an resident population reached 8.0681 million people.This is yesterday's news from the Xi'an Bureau of Statistics published for the first time in 2005 in Xi'an one percent population sampling survey was informed that the main data.According to statistical bulletin shows that: the end of 2005, the city's resident population was 8068100 people, and in 2000 the fifth national census of the total population compared with 7.4114 million, an increase of 656,700 people, in an average increase of 131,300 people.The city's population, male-4168200, accounting for 51.66 percent of the total population; women 3899900, accounting for 48.34 percent of the total population.Sex ratio (female to 100, the ratio of male to female) 106.88.The city's 13 districts and counties, the most populous Yanta District, to 1077400; Gaoling Xian Yanliang District and at least for 244,900 people.Historical SitesZhaolingzhaoling Liquan Xian Xianyang City in the northeast over 20 kilometers, about 80 kilometers away from Xi'an, Tang Taizong is the tomb of Li Shimin, formed magnificent.Zhao Ling Tang Dynasty emperors created a mountain of precedent for the Mausoleum, Zhaoling in the south, to Emperor Mausoleum as the center posed a huge fan base Peizang Mu, momentum of the event, is a typical Mausoleum.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Yaowang Shan Yao Wangshan in Xi'an NATO Yaoxian 100 km east, formerly known as Mount Wutai, composed of five small wins mountain range, 812 meters above sea level, because of the Tang Dynasty doctors Sun Simiao hide this, Sun was respect for the founder of Taoism, said "Yao Wang," the Ming Dynasty to the mountain for Yao Wangshan.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Shin Tai Hing Tai Hing Temple Monastery in good southern suburbs of Xi'an.Taishi built in the first year of Emperor Wu Jin (265), Sui Kai-year renewal.Is inside the temple, are building the Ming and Qing dynasties.Here is the ancient birthplace of Tantric Buddhism, is the Changan translation of Buddhist scriptures one of the three major translation market.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Cao Tangsi Cao Tangsi, located in Huxian in the northern foothills of the main Mineyama, Legend has it built in the Jin Dynasty.Legends that every autumn and winter morning, the hole out a smoke, Changan Piaoqu straight Royal Park, and was "well smoke," a "thatched cottage smoke."-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Five in five southern Tainan Xi Annan about 30 kilometers, when the Zhongnanshan spur, the mountains are big Desk, Manjusri, cool, this spirit, the suicide of five small Taiwan, but also five small mountain, known as the South 5, South Mount Wutai-Jun Qiao, Wins mountain range overlap, dense forest, very beautiful scenery-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- The Temple-the Temple in Xian Nan Chang'an County Dudianshaoling the banks of the original, is the monk Xuan Zang of the Tang Qianzang the remains of temples, in 664 AD, a famous monk Xuan Zang Master passed away, buried in Bailuyuan, the original burial Xi'an Middle eastern outskirts of the eastern shore of Bailuyuan, Tang Chapter 2002 total (699) Qianzang the site and repair temple built at the same time as a commemorative tower-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Temple-plot-plot Temple in Xian Nan Chang'an County, 17 km southwest of the town god Weiqu Wo on the original.TANG Zhong Zongshen Long built in 2002 (706), and to commemorate the burial of the founders of Pure Land Buddhist monk society is built, most of the original temple has been destroyed, Qianlong-year refurbishment, the existing palace rooms and Tang Jian good Guta I.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Fusi nomination - Xiaoyan Ta Xiaoyan Ta full name of "recommended Fusi Xiaoyan Ta", at about one kilometer south of Xi'an, the friendship between the West Road south of the nomination Fusi, Yanta and big things in both directions, as the ancient capital of Chang'an to retain the Tang Dynasty So far one of the two important signs.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Clock Tower Clock Tower in Xi'an center, something the North-South 104 Main Street Interchange, the total 36 meters high, 8.6 meters high pedestal, each side length of 35.5 meters, an area of about 1377.4 square meters.Radiation to it as the center to the East, South, West, North Main Street and four walls with the East, South, West, North four phase grounding, and this is one of Xi'an proud of the clock tower.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Taibai Mountain Taibai Mountain scenic area in the north of Qinling Zhouzhi County of Xi'an, Xi'an Dongju area 70 km.Lou Guantai is the ancient Chinese oracle, a great thinker Laozi said his great book "The moral" culture Zuting Taoist shrines and holy places.Has a long history and goes back to ancient times, Chinese culture known as the seat of the soul.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Shaanxi Museum of History Museum is a new large-scale modernization of the national museum, a country, "July 5" program focused on construction projects.Xiaozhai East Road in Xi'an and Tsui Wah Road in the northwest side of the crossing, the Museum Area, covering over 65,000 square meters, construction area of nearly 60,000 square meters.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Cuihua Mountain Cuihua Mountain natural scenic area, located 23 kilometers south of Xi'an Qinling North veins.2,132 m above sea level.Area of 1,785 hectares."Fastest and easiest show independence" and "Museum of the Chinese geological features," known.Cuihua Mountain Scenic Spot from Bishan Lake area, Tianchi scenic areas and landslides Shihai area consists of three parts.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Muslim Halal Dasi Dasi, with the study because of its Lane mosque things distant relative, but a larger scale, it is also known as Dong Dasi or Muslim Dasi, as a national focus on heritage conservation units.Mosque compound before and after four hours, covering over 13,000 square meters, construction area of over 5,000 square meters.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Qianling dry county in the six kilometers north of Liangshan, Li Zhi Tang Emperor Gaozong and female He Zangmu Mausoleum of Emperor Wu Zetian, the Tomb of the Mausoleum due to Hill, the momentum of Majestic.Liangshan is Sanfeng: North highest peak, 1047.9 meters above sea level, the two Wu Zetian and Emperor Gaozong He Zangmu on the peak of this.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, located in Lintong Xi'an Prefecture about five kilometers north of Lishan, 30 kilometers away from Xi'an.Large-scale tombs, magnificent momentum.Mausoleum a total area of 56.25 square kilometers.Ling Feng Tu on the original about 115 meters high and is still as high as 76 meters, within a cemetery outside double Chengyuan, within the city perimeter of 3,840 meters, 6,210 meters outside the city perimeter.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Maolingmaoling in Xian Zhou Xingping City, 40 kilometers northeast, the tomb of Emperor Liu Che, with a total of the five-Mausoleum, therefore known as the five original Tomb, Maoling to the largest construction had 53, Grave For the closure knoll, the flattened cone, 46.5 meters high, surrounded by a wall of the envelope, length, width of 430 x414 metres-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Li Lishan Mountain in Xi'an Lintong County South, is a spur of the Qinling Mountains.Top peak Kowloon 1301.9 meters above sea level, the mountain pine Bai Changqing, a lush, green Yuankan the shape of a horse Li, Gu Ming, "Li Shan."Li Shan Tsui show because of scenery, the United States such as Fairview Park, it also known as "embroidered Ridge."-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Lou Guantai Lou Guantai Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province in the southeast, the fastest and easiest northern foot of the Qinling mountains, the Taiwan about 76 kilometers away from Xi'an, the legendary I Lier in this practice, Dedao after passing all his followers, it is to Taoism is the country's holy place, and admired by the Taoist believers worshipped, is China's famous Taoist resort-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Huashan Mountain is one of China's famous Wu Yue, in Huayin County South, Dong Ju Xian 120 km.In its southern Qinling Mountains, the North-the Yellow River, Qifeng processes, towering majestic, magnificent, pulling Junxiuchenxiong risk to the world.Huashan, a total of five peaks that Dongfeng Chaoyang, Xifeng Lotus, in the peak herself, Luo Yan-South, North-Haeundae.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Hua Qing Hot Spring Hua Qing Hot Spring in Xi'an Chengdong, Lishan the north, 30 kilometers away from Xi'an.Legend has it the Western Zhou Dynasty in the week You Wang Jian here from the official, Qin, Han, Sui-plus generations have built, to the Tang Dynasty also built several times, said, Qinggong.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Famen Si Famen Si in Fufeng county 10 kilometers north of the Famen town.Founded in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Faji in the Northern Wei Dynasty, starting in the Sui Hing, heyday in the Tang Dynasty, known as "Royal temples," because she Li resettlement Sakyamuni Buddha as a phalanx of the whole country look up to Buddhist holy sites.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Banpo Museum in Xi'an Banpo Museum is located at the eastern outskirts of the eastern shore of the Court of Banpo Village North, 1957 on completion of the Banpo Ruins, was formally opened in 1958.For key national heritage conservation units.Banpo Ruins is a relatively complete the Yellow River Basin, a typical matriarchal clan commune of villages in ruins, is China's precious cultural heritage.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Xi'an Forest of Steles Forest of Steles in Xi'an Museum is located at the former site of Confucian Temple in Xi'an, the monument such as Lin Li Cong named.It was built in the Northern Song Dynasty Zhezong yuan »2002 (1087), Tang was kept open between the first year of the engraved" by 13 "," Shitai Book of Filial Piety "and built, after experiencing the collection, gradually expand the scale, only that - "Forest of Steles."-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Xi'an city wall of Xi'an city wall is not only preserve the integrity of the ancient Chinese Chengyuan construction, the existing scale of the world's largest and most complete ancient castle military facilities, the ancient capital of Xi'an is the symbol architecture, splendid culture of Chinese nation is a symbol-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses MuseumMarch 29, 1974, Lintong County (now the Lintong District of Xi'an) Jan West Village south of the villagers in the village wells, accidentally discovered the Qin terracotta warriors and horses.This matter has aroused the close attention of the central leadership.National cultural relics in Shaanxi Province appointed by the Organization of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Qin Yong archaeological team to carry out investigation and clean-up.-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------Yanta Yanta big big big Cien temple in the southern suburbs, is the famous ancient architecture was seen as a symbol of the ancient capital of Xi'an.Legend has it that Tangseng from India (ancient Tianzhu) learn from back, and specialized in Translation of the Tripitaka.Yanta style imitation of India for the construction of Yanta Gu Ming.Since then, in Chang'an recommended Fusi built a smaller Yanta, in order to distinguish between, people put Ciensita called the Yanta, Sita is recommended Xiaoyan Ta-fu, has spread so far.Official website: http://www.xian.gov.cn/

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