Where is Zhangjiajie in Hunan

Zhangjiajie City, located between latitude 28°52′-29°48′N and longitude 109°40′-111°20′E, is an emerging province-level city under the jurisdiction of Hunan Province in the northwestern part of the country that is being developed and constructed, characterized by the development of tourism in Zhangjiajie, and bordered by Hubei Province in the north. Zhangjiajie City is located in northwestern Hunan Province, at the combination of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau uplift and the Dongting Lake subsidence zone, between longitude 109°40′-111°20′ and latitude 28°52′-29°48′, and is bordered by Shimen and Taoyuan counties to the east, Yuanling County to the south, and Hefeng and Xuanen counties in Hubei Province to the north.

The stratigraphy of Zhangjiajie City is complex and varied, creating the local characteristic landscape. There are mainly mountains, karst, hills, granite and plains, etc. The mountainous area accounts for 76% of the total area, of which the most characteristic is the quartz sandstone peak forest landform, which is rare in the world. The terrain of the city is high in the northwest and tilts to the southeast along the river.

Another prominent performance in the city area is due to crustal uplift, the stream downward cutting effect increases, too late to widen the river, and make the river valley to form a pass valley, canyon. The valley bottom of the river is extremely scurrying into a linear shape, the two walls are steep, beach more water. Zhangjiajie City, the source of the river, the upper reaches of the Bambi River, Maoyan River section, is this valley geomorphology.

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