Dezhou area belongs to Shandong Province, and Shandong Dezhou now governs 4 districts (Decheng District, Lingcheng District, Economic Development Zone and Canal Development Zone), 2 cities (Yucheng and Leling) and 7 counties (Ningjin, Qihe, Linyi, Pingyuan, Wucheng, Xiajin and Qingyun).
1994 65438+February 17. With the approval of the State Council, the organizational system of Dezhou City, a prefecture-level city in Shandong Province, was abolished and it was subordinate to Shandong Province. Dezhou City, Shandong Province has a total area of 10356 square kilometers, including 84 10000 mu of cultivated land. 1The total population at the end of 1999 was 5.3 million, of which 4.3 million were agricultural.
Terrain:
Dezhou is an alluvial plain of the Yellow River. In history, there have been two great migrations of the Yellow River, with thousands of crevasses, which created a terrain with high southwest and low northeast.
Due to the factors of flood, velocity and wind accumulation, the plain is characterized by ups and downs and alternating distribution of hills, slopes and depressions.
There are many landforms in Dezhou city, which can be roughly divided into three categories: one is plateau, which is deposited by rivers and riverbeds, accounting for 34.3% of the total land area; Second, the sloping land deposited by the flood of the Yellow River accounts for 52.1%of the total land area; The third is depression, accounting for 13.6%.