Heze City is in Shandong Province.

Heze City, known as Caozhou in ancient times, is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, the peony capital of China, and a third-tier city. It is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, at the junction of the four provinces of Shandong, Suzhou, Henan, and Anhui, and is adjacent to Jining City in the east. It borders Xuzhou City in Jiangsu Province and Suzhou City in Anhui Province to the southeast, Shangqiu City in Henan Province to the south, Kaifeng City and Xinxiang City in Henan Province to the west, and Puyang City in Henan Province to the north.

It is located between 34°39′-35°52′ north latitude and 114°45′-116°25′ east longitude. It is 157 kilometers long from north to south and 140 kilometers wide from east to west. The total area is 12,239 square kilometers. As of 2022, it has jurisdiction over 2 municipal districts and 7 counties, with a permanent population of 8.6832 million.

Heze is the capital of peony, the hometown of martial arts, the hometown of opera, the hometown of calligraphy and painting, and the hometown of folk art. The ancestral culture, the Yellow River culture, the Han culture, the Water Margin culture, and the peony culture blend together. , is the regional economic organization node and core city of the Central Plains Urban Agglomeration, the Silk Road Economic Belt, the Lunan Economic Belt, the Huaihai Economic Zone, the Huaihe Ecological Economic Belt, and the Beijing-Kowloon Economic Cooperation Belt. It is the permanent venue of China Forest Products Fair.

Heze Animal Resources

There are more than 200 species of wild animals and birds in Heze City, including more than 20 species of first- and second-level birds protected by the state, and 100 insectivorous and beneficial birds that are beneficial to humans. There are more than 20 species of commercial birds; in terms of residence status, there are more than 30 species of resident birds, more than 50 species of summer migratory birds, more than 20 species of winter migratory birds, and the rest are migrant birds. Owls, sparrows, woodpeckers, etc.

There are 19 species of mammals, belonging to 5 orders including Insectivora, Chiroptera, Carnivora, Lagomorpha, and Rodentia. There are 9 species of amphibians and 10 species of reptiles. The main ones are Weasels, hares, hedgehogs, snakes, cicadas, bats, praying mantises, crickets, spiders, earthworms and more.

The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Heze