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Shanxi, referred to as "Jin" for short, is the provincial administrative region of People's Republic of China (PRC) (China), with Taiyuan as its capital. Located in North China, it borders Hebei in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Henan in the south and Inner Mongolia in the north, between 34 34 ′-40 44 ′ north latitude and 65 438+00 65 438+04 ′ east longitude.
Shanxi Province is a parallelogram inclined from northeast to southwest, which is a typical loess-covered mountain plateau with high terrain in northeast and low terrain in southwest. The interior of the plateau is undulating and the valleys are vertical and horizontal. The landforms are mountains, hills, terraces and plains, and the mountainous area accounts for 80. 1% of the total area. Shanxi province spans the Yellow River and Haihe River, and the rivers belong to the self-produced outflow system. Shanxi Province is located in the hinterland of the mid-latitude zone and belongs to the temperate continental monsoon climate.