Bo (bó) city, called Bo in ancient times, is also called Qiaocheng. It is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Anhui Province. It is located in the northwest of Anhui Province, at the southern end of North China Plain, at the junction of Anhui, Henan, Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, with Shangqiu City in the north, Luyi County in Zhoukou City in the west, Fuyang City in the southwest, Huaibei City and Bengbu City in the east, Huainan City in the southeast and Anhui and Henan provinces in the southeast.
Bozhou is also called "the land of high houses" because it is composed of high prefix and house prefix. Bozhou is a national historical and cultural city. As early as seven or eight thousand years ago, human beings lived here, which is one of the birthplaces of ancient culture in China.
Shang Tang destroyed the summer and established the Shang Dynasty in Bo 190, and Ji Fang was founded in Bo. In the second year of Emperor (22 1), it was named "the capital", and it was called "the five capitals" together with Xuchang, Chang 'an, Luoyang and Ye. In the first year of the Northern Zhou Dynasty (579), Nanzhan Prefecture was changed to Bozhou, the name of Bozhou, which was first seen here.
The geographical environment of Bozhou city:
1. Topography: the whole territory of Bozhou is long in the southeast and northwest. The whole Bozhou is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, with a length of about 150 km from north to south and a width of about 90 km from east to west. Slightly inclined to the southeast, with a natural slope of 1/9000. Zhanlou, Qiaocheng District in the northwest, has the highest terrain, with an altitude of 42.5 meters. The south of Zhangou in Lixin County is the lowest in the southeast, with an altitude of 22 meters and a relative drop of 20.5 meters.
2. Climate: Bozhou has an excellent climate, belonging to a warm temperate and semi-humid climate zone, with obvious monsoon, mild climate, abundant sunshine, moderate rainfall, long frost-free period and distinct four seasons. The annual average temperature is 15.2℃, the annual average precipitation is 867.2 mm, the annual average sunshine is 2040.9 hours, and the frost-free period is about 2 19 days.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Bozhou City