What cities and counties are there in Shanxi Province?

As of April, 2020, Shanxi Province has * * * jurisdiction over1prefecture-level cities, 26 municipal districts, 1 1 county-level cities and 80 counties. Taiyuan, the provincial capital, lives in the middle of Shanxi Province, and other 10 cities are Datong, Shuozhou, Xinzhou, Yangquan, Lvliang, Jinzhong, Changzhi, Jincheng, Linfen and Yuncheng from north to south.

Shanxi, referred to as "Jin" for short, is a provincial-level administrative region in People's Republic of China (PRC). Taiyuan, the capital, is located in the north of China, bordering Hebei in the east, Shaanxi in the west, Henan in the south and Inner Mongolia in the north, between 34 34 ′-40 44 ′ north latitude and10 65438 east longitude.

The topography of Shanxi:

Shanxi Province is located in the east wing of the Loess Plateau in the west of North China. The landform as a whole is a mountainous plateau covered by loess, and the overall outline is slightly parallelogram from northeast to southwest. The landform types are complex and diverse, including mountains, hills, plateaus, basins and platforms, of which mountains and hills account for 80% and plateaus, basins and platforms account for 20%.

Most areas are above 1000 meters above sea level, showing strong uplift compared with the eastern North China Plain. The highest point is Wutai Mountain Yetou Peak in the northeast, with an altitude of 3058 meters, which is the highest peak in North China. The lowest point is the place where the Xiyang River flows into the Yellow River in the southeast of Yuanqu County, Yuncheng City, with an altitude of only 180 meters. The terrain in this area fluctuates.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Shanxi