Jiangsu Province is located in East China and occupies the southern part of the North China plains and the plains of the Lower Reaches of the Yangtze River. In the eastern part of the province the coastline of the Yellow Sea extends as long as over 1,000 kilometers. Jiangsu Province is adjacent to Shanghai on the east, to Zhejiang Province on the north, to Anhui Province on the west and to Shandong Province on the north. It covers an area of more than 100,000 square kilometers, with a population of 65,350,000. The population density comes out first in China. Most people are of Han Nationality and some are of Hui Nationality and Man Nationality. The name "Jiangsu" comes from the combination of the first Chinese character of "Jiang Ning" and "Su Zhou" (two prefectures in the Qing Dynasty); its short form is "Su". The provincial capital is Nanjing.