Where is Xiamen? Map of China.

Xiamen is located at 24.4' north latitude and 1 18. 1' east longitude, and it is in the south-southeast position on the map of China.

Xiamen, called "Xiamen" or "Heron" for short, also called Ludao, is a prefecture-level city, a sub-provincial city, a city with separate plans and a class I big city under the jurisdiction of Fujian Province. Located in the east of China and the southeast of Fujian Province, it has a subtropical maritime monsoon climate, which is mild and rainy. It consists of Xiamen Island, Gulangyu Island, Haicang Peninsula on the west coast, Jimei Peninsula on the north coast, Xiang 'an Peninsula on the east coast, Dalong Island, Xiaodeng Island, Tongan and Jiulong River inland. As of 202 1, Xiamen has six districts with a total area of 1700+0 square kilometers.

By the end of 2022, the resident population of Xiamen was 5.308 million, and the urbanization rate of the resident population was 90. 19%. Xiamen Island was the habitat of egrets in ancient times, so it was also called "Egret Island". It was located in Tongan County in the Western Jin Dynasty, and Xiamen City was built in the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1394). 1935 Xiamen was established, 1980 Xiamen Special Economic Zone was established with the approval of the State Council, 1988 Xiamen was approved as a city under separate state planning by the State Council, and 1994 Xiamen was upgraded to a sub-provincial city.

Xiamen topography

The topography of Xiamen is mainly coastal plains, terraces and hills. Xiamen's topography inclines from northwest to southeast, and there are various types of topography, including Zhongshan, low mountains, high hills, low hills, terraces, plains and beaches. There are many middle and low mountains in the northwest, among which Genting Mountain, located at the junction of Tongan and Anxi, is the highest mountain in the city with an altitude of 1 175.2 meters.

From northwest to southeast, there are high hills, low hills, terraces, marine plains and beaches in turn, and Xiamen Island and Gulangyu Island in the south. Genting Mountain is the highest peak in Xiamen, Genting Rock is the highest peak in Xiamen Island, and Sunlight Rock is the highest peak in Gulangyu Island.

In the long geological history, Xiamen has experienced many crustal movements and many seawater advances and retreats. The first terrace on Xiamen Island with an altitude of 5- 10 meters was exposed to the sea about 6000 years ago, and the rocks on Genting Rock (Stone Age 65438+ 1 100 million years) were still in an obvious state of marine erosion. The geological structure of Xiamen is located in the eastern edge of the volcanic depression in eastern Fujian and the southwest of the metamorphic belt along the southeast coast of Fujian, which belongs to the seismic belt along the southeast coast of China. The seismic design standard for buildings is 7.5.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xiamen.