| Province: Sichuan |
| Cities: Chengdu | Mianyang | Luzhou | Panzhihua | Yibin | Neijiang | Leshan | Jiuzhaigou |
| Location: located in the Upper Yangtze Valley in the southwest part of the country. |
| Area: 485,000 square kilo meters |
| Climate:The climate in Sichuan is vastly different between its eastern and western parts. The Sichuan Basin has a humid sub-tropical monsoonal climate, with mild winters, hot summers, long frost-free period, plentiful rainfall and mist, high humidity, and less sunshine. Its average temperature in July, the hottest month, is 25-29oC; in January, the coldest month, 3-8oC. The Western Sichuan Plateau with its plateau climate has lower temperature and less rainfall than the Sichuan Basin, both of which differ again in the southern and northern sections of the plateau. |
| Provincial capital: Chengdu |
| Population: 87.00 millions (March 2003) |
| Ethnic groups:Dai, Qiang,Miao, Man,Yi,Lishu, Tibetan, Mongol,Zhuang,Naxi,Buyi Fourteen other ethnic groups. |
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