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Region

	Area of	Natural	Coasts	Rivers	Lakes	Marshland	Man-made	Proportion of
	Wetlands	Wetlands	and				Wetlands	Wetlands in
	(1 000		Seashores					Total Area of
	hectares)							Territory (%)

National Total	38485.5	36200.6	5941.7	8207.0	8351.6	13700.3	2285.0	4.01

Beijing	34.4	5.0		5.0			29.4	1.93
Tianjin	171.8	133.7	58.1	55.1	12.3	8.2	38.1	14.95
Hebei	1081.9	1042.3	278.8	319.3	307.2	136.9	39.6	5.82
Shanxi	499.9	462.2		454.1	8.1		37.7	3.19
Inner Mongolia	4245.0	4200.8		607.5	495.2	3098.1	44.3	3.66

Liaoning	1219.6	1106.8	738.1	252.2	6.3	110.2	112.9	8.37
Jilin	1203.4	1016.4	5.8	581.4	74.5	354.7	187.0	6.37
Heilongjiang	4314.8	4182.8		460.7	401.9	3320.3	132.0	9.49

Shanghai	319.7	319.4	305.4	7.2	6.8		0.3	53.68
Jiangsu	1674.7	1651.1	843.5	203.3	604.2		23.6	16.32
Zhejiang	802.2	695.9	574.3	118.5	3.0	0.1	106.3	7.88
Anhui	653.9	590.0		239.5	350.5		63.9	4.73
Fujian	443.0	421.2	370.6	31.1	19.5		21.8	3.65
Jiangxi	998.8	872.9		314.9	443.2	114.8	125.9	5.99
Shandong	1784.1	1681.4	1210.9	301.1	165.5	3.9	102.7	11.72

Henan	624.1	482.2		472.7	2.6	6.9	141.9	3.74
Hubei	927.3	730.5		377.4	294.7	58.4	196.9	4.99
Hunan	1226.9	1047.5		683.1	359.3	5.1	179.5	5.79
Guangdong	1398.1	1252.0	1017.8	231.7	1.5	1.0	146.0	7.86
Guangxi	656.1	567.5	348.4	219.1	0.0		88.6	2.76
Hainan	311.5	256.6	190.0	38.3	17.3	11.0	54.9	9.13

Chongqing	43.2	31.9		31.6	0.3		11.3	0.52
Sichuan	961.7	919.5		563.9	13.4	342.3	42.1	1.98
Guizhou	79.4	65.9		58.0	2.3	5.7	13.5	0.45
Yunnan	235.3	220.3		119.8	96.5	4.0	15.0	0.61
Tibet	5232.0	5231.5		231.1	2538.6	2461.7	0.5	4.26

Shaanxi	292.9	277.2		252.1	7.3	17.8	15.7	1.42
Gansu	1258.1	1131.4		565.6	44.3	521.5	126.7	2.80
Qinghai	4126.0	4087.7		107.5	1232.0	2748.1	38.3	5.72
Ningxia	255.6	252.4		104.1	148.3		3.2	3.85
Xinjiang	1410.2	1264.6		200.2	694.9	369.5	145.5	0.86


a) Data in the table is the figures of China First Wetlands Survey, excluding the wetlands of Taiwan province, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR. Area of
wetlands excludes the wetland of paddyfield.