Shenzhen is in the south of Guangdong Province 113 O 46'-114 O 37'E and 22 O 27-22 O 52'N, It borders on New Territories of Hong Kong in the south, overlooking the Depart Bay in the east, the Pearl River Estuary in the west and adjoins Huizhou city and Dongguan city in The North.

Area
Shenzhen has a total area of 2,020 square kilometers,of which the Special Economic Zone covers an area of 327.5 square kilometers.

Climate
Shenzhen enjoys a maritime and subtropical climate. The average annual temperature is 22.4, with the highest record of 36.6 and the lowest of 1.4. The average annual rainfall is 1,948.6 mm.and the average annual sunshine are 2,120 hours. The southeasterly wind prevails the whole year round.

Coast
The coastline of Shenzhen stretches 229.9 kilometers.

Fishery
The sea area of Shenzhen teems with over 30 species of famous and precious fith including the golden thread fish, the "big-eye"porgy, sea-bass and etc. and with shrimps,cards,shells and algaes. The city also abounds with oysters in Shajing and coastal shrimaps which are renowned at home and abroad.

Minerals
In the city, 15 metallic and 12 mon-metallic minerals have been prospected and there are over 900 mineral deposits, of which building material minerals such as fresh-water sand, marble,granite and lime stone have abundant reserves.

Specialties
Shenzhen abounds in the "three yellow" fattened chicken in Longgang litchis in Nantou, peaches in Nanshan,sand pears in Shiyan, the "golden tortoise"mandarin and so on. More than 90 varieties of valuable animals live and breed locally, including the "tiger-skin streak"frog,boas, rhesus monkdys,zibets and etc.,which are wild animals under state protection.

Population
By the end of 1994,the population of the city totaled 3.3553 million including 0.94 million permanent dwellers and 2.4154 million nonpermanent ones.