Luoyang

Location : situated in the west of Henan Province.

Physical Features : mainly features with plain, hill and mountains

Population : 6.10 million

Urban Population : 1.38 million

Area : 15,208 sq km

Nationalities : Han

History : one of the seven ancient capital cities in China's history, served sooner or later as the capital city with a history of 1592 years and for 13 different dynasties (the Xia, the Shang, the Eastern Zhou, the Eastern Han, the Cao Wei, the Western Jin, the Northern Wei, the Sui and the Tang, etc.); considered the miniature of the ancient Chinese history

Climatic Features : the continental monsoon climate in the temperate zone

Average Temperature : 14.7℃ annually

Rainfall : mainly concentrated on June, July and August with annual average amount of 45.83 mm