Guanzhong · Prefecture-level city

Xi'an西安市

Xi'an stretches from the Wei River plain to the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains. Its central districts form a dense old city, while Chang'an, Huyi, Zhouzhi and Lantian run towards the mountains.

English summary

Region: Guanzhong
Divisions: 13
Centre point: 34.1059°N · 108.7963°E
Measured area: 10,058 km²
East–west span: 198.3 km
North–south span: 116.6 km

This is an English summary. The full entry is in Chinese. Read the full entry in Chinese

At a glance

Xi'an governs 13 county-level divisions: 11 districts and 2 counties.

Together they measure about 10,058 km², 4.9% of the province's measured area, ranking 9 of the ten cities by measured area.

The city runs about 198.3 km east to west and 116.6 km north to south, and its area-weighted centre sits near 34.1059°N · 108.7963°E.

Every figure here is aggregated from the 107 county pages on this site with the same boundary measurements. None of it is taken from an official statistical yearbook.

The divisions

Listed by administrative code — the same order as the Chinese edition. Each name opens its English county page.

Largest by measured area: Zhouzhi County. Smallest by measured area: Beilin District.

Four seasons

One original illustration drawn four ways, in this city's palette. The vectors open at full size; the raster files are 1280×720 WebP.

Xi'an in Spring, original illustration — **Spring** · The wheat greens up, then rapeseed and apricot blossom follow. The wind stays raw and the days still swing between warm and cold. · Vector version

Xi'an in Summer, original illustration — **Summer** · The wheat is cut in June and the maize pushes up behind it. In a dry spell, canal water and wells decide how green the fields look. · Vector version

Xi'an in Autumn, original illustration — **Autumn** · Maize, apples and pomegranates ripen in turn and the tablelands begin to turn yellow; each autumn rain deepens the colour of the hills. · Vector version

Xi'an in Winter, original illustration — **Winter** · The fields rest and village outlines sharpen. Fog is common, and distant hills often reduce to a pale line. · Vector version

These are editorial illustrations, not photographs and not maps: they suggest the season and the landscape, and carry no survey data.

Where it sits

Location of Xi'an in Shaanxi: its 13 divisions highlighted on the provincial outline — Shaanxi · this city's divisions highlighted · figure labels in Chinese · Vector version

The locator draws all 107 divisions of the province and shades the ones belonging to this city, so the city reads as a piece of the whole rather than as a standalone shape.

Seal-style graphic for Xi'an — City seal · graphic device, not an official emblem

Borders inside and outside the city

Under this site's adjacency test, the 13 divisions of this city share 25 borders with one another, and 16 cross-city borders connect them to 6 other cities.

Borders between divisions: 25; Pairs of divisions of this city that share a boundary.
Neighbouring cities: 6; Baoji, Xianyang, Weinan, Hanzhong, Ankang and Shangluo
Cross-city borders: 16; Borders where the other side belongs to a different city.

Source and confidence

Names, types and parent city: Not individually checked
Area, spans, centre and borders: Measured
Summary, seasonal notes, illustrations and palette: Editorial work

Boundary, area and centre: DataV.GeoAtlas, measured on simplified geometry. Not an official statistic.

Name, type and parent city: DataV.GeoAtlas attributes, not individually checked.

Updated 2026-11-03

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