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Geography
Fuzhou is located in the Southeast coast of China and East side of Fujian province near the Minjiang river, in the opposite of North Taiwan. Fuzhou connects jointly northwards with Ningde and Nanping, southwards with Quanzhou and Putian, westwards with Sanming respectively. To the Earth, Fuzhou is also located at Longitude 118 ° 08 '- 120 ° 31', north latitude 25 ° 15 '- 26 ° 29', with a total land area of 12,154 km^2. Mountains and hills are all over the Fuzhou, they occupied 72.68% of the city. The highest mountain in Fuzhou area is Donghujian Mountain, which has 1,682m height.

Climate
Fuzhou has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) influenced by the East Asian Monsoon; the summers are long, very hot and humid, the winters are short, mild and dry. In most years torrential rain occurs during the monsoon in the second half of May. Fuzhou is also liable to typhoons in late summer and early autumn. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from 10.9 °C in January to 28.9 °C in July, while the annual mean is 19.84 °C. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 24% in March to 54% in July, the city receives 1,607 hours of bright sunshine annually. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −1.7 °C to 41.7 °C. The days, that the highest temperatures from 1951 to 2013, are 41.7 °C on July 26, 2003, 41.1 °C on July 15, 2003 and 40.6 °C on Aug 8, 2013. Fuzhou is strongly influenced by typhoon every year. Averagely Typhoon directly land on Fuzhou twice a year during July to September.