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Area
Anhui province is about 570 km from south to north and 450 km from east to west. It covers an area of 139.6 thousand square kilometers, about 1.45 percent of the total area of the country.
Topography
There are various landforms in Anhui. The Yangtze River and Huaihe River flow through the province and divide the whole province into three main natural area to the Huaihe River, the area between the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River and the south area to the Yangtze River. Some major mountains, such as Dabie Mountain, Yellow Mountain, Jiuhua Mountain and Tianzhu Mountain lie in Anhui, and the highest peak of Yellow Mountain---Lotus Peak is 1,860 meters above sea level. Among many rivers and lakes in Anhui, Chaohu Lake is one of the five great freshwater lakes in China, with an area of 800 square kilometers.
Infrastructure
Roads
The province has 148,400 km of roads, including 2,206 km of expressways. The length of expressways will reach 3,500 km by 2010.
Railroads
Anhui has the most railway mileage in east China. Both the Beijing-Shanghai and Beijing-Kowloon railroads run through the province
Aviation
Hefei and Huangshan are the two aviation hubs in Anhui serving both domestic and foreign flights. Four other airports have direct flights to major domestic cities.
Waterways
The province has three main rivers--the Yangtze, the Huaihe and the Xin'an. There are five open inland river ports including Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Tongling, Chizhou and Anqing along the 400-km Anhui section of the Yangtze.
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| Xin'an River, which is reputed as a gallery of water and mountains. |
Communications
Anhui has established a modern communication network with fixed lines, long-distance digital transmission and mobile communications. In 2007, the number of fixed-line, mobile phone and Internet users reached 14.94 million, 14.1 million and 15.59 million respectively.
Power
The power generation reached 86.8 billion kWh in Anhui in 2007.
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