Area : 485,000 square kilometers              Location : Southwest China

Unique Features : Panda Habitat , Spicy and numbing food , Biggest Buddha in the World , Jiuzhaigou National Park , and Qiang Minority

Located on the upper reaches of Yangtze and isolated by a ring of mountains , Sichuan province is famous as the hometown of pandas . Except desert and ocean , there are various types of geographic features , including plain , plateau , valleys , mountain ranges and snow caps .