Guyuan City is located on the Qingshui River at the northern foot of Liupanshan Mountain in the Loess Plateau. It is located in the center of the triangle formed by An, Lan and Yin, one of the five prefecture-level cities in Ningxia and the only city not along the Yellow River.
The Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia old revolutionary base area is planned as a central city, a regional central city in southern Ningxia, a political, economic and cultural center and a transportation hub.
Guyuan is adjacent to Qingyang City and Pingliang City in Gansu Province in the east and south, Baiyin City in Gansu Province in the west and Zhongwei and Wuzhong in Ningxia in the north.
Geomorphology of Guyuan city
Guyuan city is located in the northwest edge of the Loess Plateau in China, with Liupanshan as the north-south backbone, which divides Guyuan city into two walls, showing a trend of high in the south and low in the north.
Most of the elevations are between 1500-2200m. Due to the cutting and impact of rivers, the geographical characteristics of hills, gullies, staggered beams and headlands, more mountains and fewer rivers, staggered terraces, beams, headlands and trenches are formed. It belongs to loess hilly and gully region.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Guyuan City