Geographical region

Guanzhong关中

The Wei River runs east through the Guanzhong Plain, between river terraces and loess tablelands. Villages line the channels and roads; wheat, maize and orchards shape the fields.

English summary

Cities: 5
Divisions: 54
Measured area: 55,200 km²
Share of province: 27.0%
Centre point: 34.5943°N · 108.4668°E
East–west span: 392.6 km
North–south span: 252.8 km

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At a glance

Guanzhong takes in 5 prefecture-level cities and 54 county-level divisions: 23 districts, 27 counties and 4 county-level cities. Together they measure about 55,200 km², 27.0% of the province's measured area.

A region here is a geographical division, not an administrative one. Guanzhong has no government of its own and no administrative boundary; the outline on this page is the union of its county boundaries, drawn so that the shape of the region can be read and measured.

The region runs about 392.6 km east to west and 252.8 km north to south, and its area-weighted centre sits near 34.5943°N · 108.4668°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 region on the province

All 107 county-level divisions of Shaanxi are drawn: the ones in this region are shaded by city, the rest are left as a pale backdrop so the region reads as a piece of the whole. Figure labels are in Chinese.

Guanzhong on the Shaanxi outline: its 5 cities shaded, the other divisions left pale — Region map · figure labels in Chinese · Vector version

Xi'an: 13; 10,058 km² · 18.2% of the region
Tongchuan: 4; 3,888 km² · 7.0% of the region
Baoji: 12; 18,031 km² · 32.7% of the region
Xianyang: 14; 10,300 km² · 18.7% of the region
Weinan: 11; 12,924 km² · 23.4% of the region

The plate is drawn from simplified county boundaries at 1200×720. Areas are measured on those simplified outlines and will differ slightly from official figures.

The cities

Listed by measured area, largest first. Each name opens that city's English page.

The divisions

Every county-level division in the region, listed by administrative code — the same order as the Chinese edition. Each name opens its English county page.

Largest by measured area: Feng County, about 3,122 km². Smallest by measured area: Beilin District, about 22 km².

Borders inside and outside the region

Under this site's adjacency test, the 54 divisions of Guanzhong share 132 borders with one another, and 26 borders cross into the 2 other regions.

Borders inside the region: 132; Pairs of divisions of this region that share a boundary.
Borders leaving the region: 26; Northern Shaanxi and Southern Shaanxi
Divisions on the regional edge: 16; Divisions with at least one neighbour in another region.

Adjacency is tested on simplified geometry, so a division counts as a neighbour when its boundary comes within about a kilometre of another. Contiguous but separately drawn lines, and neighbours that meet at a single point, are both handled by this test rather than by eye.

Four seasons

The seasonal notes for Guanzhong are written once for the region and reused by its cities. They describe what the landscape does, not what the weather records say.

Spring

The wheat greens up, then rapeseed and apricot blossom follow. The wind stays raw and the days still swing between warm and cold.

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.

Autumn

Maize, apples and pomegranates ripen in turn and the tablelands begin to turn yellow; each autumn rain deepens the colour of the hills.

Winter

The fields rest and village outlines sharpen. Fog is common, and distant hills often reduce to a pale line.

These are editorial descriptions, not climate data: no station, no normals and no averages stand behind them.

Field photographs

8 field photographs from this region, picked evenly from the 32 divisions that have one — a single picture each, all from Wikimedia Commons. Each picture opens the English county page for that division.

Field photograph taken in Xincheng District, Shaanxi — Xincheng District · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Weiyang District, Shaanxi — Weiyang District · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Lantian County, Shaanxi — Lantian County · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Yijun County, Shaanxi — Yijun County · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Qindu District, Shaanxi — Qindu District · Liuxingy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Jingyang County, Shaanxi — Jingyang County · 申威隆 · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Huazhou District, Shaanxi — Huazhou District · Man muss schweigen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Field photograph taken in Huayin, Shaanxi — Huayin · Nyx Ning · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons

These are third-party photographs used under the licences named on each one, not maps and not this site's own illustrations.

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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