Which province is the largest province in China? Which province is the largest in China?

Xinjiang. Area: 1,660,000 square kilometers.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, referred to as Xin, is located in the northwest border of China, covering an area of 1.66 million square kilometers, accounting for one-sixth of China's total land area, and is the largest provincial-level administrative region in China.

Hainan, referred to as "Qiong", is located in the southernmost part of China, originally under the jurisdiction of Guangdong, in 1988, China divided Hainan from Guangdong, independent province, and established the Hainan Special Economic Zone. The total land area of Hainan Province (mainly including Hainan Island and Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Islands) is 10,000 square kilometers, and the sea area is about 2 million square kilometers. Hainan Island is the second largest island in China after Taiwan Island, and Hainan Province is the largest province in China in terms of land area (including sea area).

Hainan Province is the youngest province in China, with 4 prefecture-level cities, 5 county-level cities, 4 counties and 6 autonomous counties. Sansha is the youngest prefecture-level city in China, established in 2012, with jurisdiction over the islands and reefs of Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands and Nansha Islands and their sea areas, with a total area of more than 2 million square kilometers, of which the land area is more than 20 square kilometers (including the southwest sand blowing land), it is the southernmost county and city in China, with the largest total area, the smallest land area and the smallest population, and is the second prefecture-level administrative region established by archipelago after Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province.

The province with the largest number of sheds in China is the Xinjiang Uyghur Qinghe Queer Autonomous Region, covering an area of more than 1.6 million square kilometers, accounting for about one-sixth of the country's total area.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The largest province in China is Xinjiang.

Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, is located in northwest China and is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions in China. With an area of 10,000 square kilometers, it is the largest provincial-level administrative region in China by land area, accounting for about one-sixth of China's total land area. Xinjiang is located in the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, with a land border of more than 5,600 kilometers.

Xinjiang is bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Mongolia, India and Afghanistan, and was an important passage of the ancient Silk Road in history, and is now the necessary place for the second "Eurasian Land Bridge". Xinjiang is mainly inhabited by Han, Uygur, Kazakh, Hui, Mongolian, Kyrgyz, Xibe, Tajik and other ethnic groups, and is one of the five ethnic minority autonomous regions in China.

Geography

Xinjiang mountains and basins are arranged alternately, surrounded by basins and high mountains, known as "three mountains and two basins". Altai Mountains in the north, Kunlun Mountains in the south; The Tianshan Mountains lie across the central part of Xinjiang, dividing Xinjiang into two halves of Namgyyi, the Tarim Basin in the south, and the Junggar Basin in the north. It is customary to call the Tianshan Mountains to the south of the south of Xinjiang, the north of the Tianshan Mountains to the north, and the Hami and Turpan basins to the east.

The lowest point in Xinjiang, Lake Ayding in Turpan, is 155 meters below sea level (and the lowest point on land in China). The highest point, Chogori Peak, is located on the border with Kashmir at 8,611 meters above sea level. Xinjiang's Gurbantunggut Desert (46 degrees north latitude, 86 degrees east longitude) is the farthest place from the ocean on land, 2,648 kilometers (straight-line distance) from the nearest coastline.

The above content is referenced from Encyclopedia-Xinjiang.

China's largest province is Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, located in northwest China, for the People's Republic of China provincial-level administrative region, is one of China's five dry ethnic minority autonomous regions, the capital of Urumqi City, and Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India 8 countries border, land border more than 5,700 kilometers long, accounting for about a quarter of the country's land border, China's largest land area, the most border neighbors, The provincial administrative region with the longest land border.