Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (province)

  Area: 66,000 sq km
  Capital: Yinchuan
  Neighbor provinces: Shaanxi and Gansu provinces; Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
  Altitude: mountains is 2,000 meters  ; plains is 1,000 - 1,200 meters. 
  Population: 5.6 million
  Urban Population: 1.7 million
  Nationalities: Han, Hui and Manchu
  Climatic Features: temperate, continental climate with long cold winter and short hot summer;strong winds.
  Average Temperature: -10C to -7C in January, 17C to 24C in July
  Annual Average Rainfall: 190 - 700 mm; precipitation increasing from north to south
  Physical Features: Loess Plateau in the south and east; Ningxia or Yinchuan Plainin the north; the Yellow River traverses the Ningxia Plain; Helan Mountains along the western border; Liupan Mountains in the southwest
  Main Products
   wheat, millet, potatoes, corn, sorghum, broomcorn millet, rape, soybeans; flax, hemp; plaster stone, salt, iron