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The provincial land area is 8,051.9 km² and divided as follows
Inhabited land: 4,145 ha
Agriculture: 163,546 ha
Forest: 491,262 ha
Specific usage: 19,936 ha
Sand area accounts for 5.9% of the land, and alluvial soil accounts for only 2.8% of the land. The province's east coastline is 116.04 km long and the western borderline with Laos is 201.81 km long. The province owns 486,688 ha of forests, of which 447,837 ha is natural jungle, and 38,854 ha is reforestation (including 17,597 ha of pines).
Quảng Bình Province’s sea area includes continential shelf and special economic area up to 20,000 km². Off the sea, there lays Hon La islet, Hòn Gió islet, Hòn Nồm islet, Hòn Cỏ islet, Hòn Chùa islets with the total fishery capacity of 100,000 metric tonnes. Hon La bay is a 4-square-km marine bay with the depth up to 15 m and a surrounding land of 400 ha suitable to develop sea deep-water port and industrial park.There are four separate seasons here: In spring (from February to April), it is warm with slight rains, humid and the temperature around 18 to 25 degrees Celsius. In the summer (from May to July), it is hot, dry with little downpours, the temperature may reach up to 35 to 36 degrees Celsius. In the fall, it is rainy, cool with temperature around 22 to 28 degrees Celsius. In the winter, it's humid, slight rain with temperature about 12 to 16 degrees Celsius. Annual average precipitation is around 2,000-2,300 mm. Heaviest rainy season is from September to November. From April to August is the dry season. The hottest months are June-August.
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