Does Yancheng, Jiangsu belong to the south or the north?

Yancheng, Jiangsu belongs to the south.

Qinling Mountains and Huaihe River divide China into north and south. From the geographical position of Yancheng, Yancheng belongs to the southern city.

Yancheng, a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, is a type II big city and a city in the central area of the Yangtze River Delta. It is located in the east coast of China, the east of Jiangsu Province, the Yellow Sea in the east, Nantong in the south, Yangzhou and Taizhou in the southwest, Huai 'an in the northwest and Lianyungang in the north. Yancheng has a total land area of 1693 1 km2, of which the coastal beach area is 4,553 km2. It has Jiangsu's only world natural heritage-China Yellow Sea (Bohai Sea) migratory bird habitat.

Climatic characteristics

Yancheng City is located in the transitional zone from the north subtropical zone to the warm temperate zone, generally bounded by the main irrigation canal in northern Jiangsu, with a subtropical climate in the south and a warm temperate climate in the south, which has transitional characteristics.

The climate is greatly influenced by the ocean. Compared with western Jiangsu at the same latitude, the temperature in spring is low and rises late. The temperature drops slowly in autumn and is higher than that in spring. The annual precipitation is also significantly higher than that in the western part of the province. The monsoon climate is obvious, and the winter is affected by the cold air mass in Eurasia, with northerly winds and cold weather; In summer, influenced by the Pacific subtropical high, southerly winds prevail, with hot weather, warm and humid air and abundant rain.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yancheng