Population: 31.5 million
Urban Population: 12 million
Nationalities: Han, She, Hui, Miao, Manchu, and Gaoshan

Area: 120,000 square kilometers
Coastline: 3,300 kilometers long

Climatic features: subtropical, humid, monsoonal climate; spring droughts, typhoons and rainstorms from summer to autumn

Average temperature: 5^oC to 13^oC in January, 25^oC to 30^oC in July

Annual average rainfall: 800 - 1,900 mm; low precipitation in the coastal lowlands, high in the northwestern mountains; the most rainfall occurs in May and June.

Physical features: graduated descent from the northwest to the southeastern seaboard; 90 percent mountains and hills; long and narrow plains along the coast; the East China Sea lies toward the northeast, the South China Sea toward the south, and Taiwan Province southeast across the Taiwan Strait.

Mountains: Wuyi, Jiufeng, Daiyun, Daimao, and Boping Mountains

River: the Minjiang River is the major waterway, with a drainage that covers about half of the province.

Products: rice, wheat, sweet potatoes, peanuts, sugar cane, rape, soybeans, sesame, tea; longans, oranges, lychees, pineapples, pomelos, loquats, bananas, lotus seeds; dried bamboo shoots, mushrooms, silver fungus; jute, tobacco, rosin, medicinal herbs; tea oil, tung oil, Chinese tallow tree, laver, lancelet, and other sea products, timber, iron, coal, molybdenum, manganese, salt, graphite

Administrative divisions: 1 1 cities and 59 counties

Capital: Fuzhou

Neighboring areas: Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Taiwan Provinces

Major cities: Fuzhou, Xiamen, Nanping, Sanming, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou

 Tourist attractions: Gulangyu Island, called the "garden on the sea," in Xiamen; Wuyishan, a scenic spot in Chong'an County

Special Note: Xiamen Special Economic Zone is one of the four established in early 1980's, the other three are in Guangdong Province.