Geological Location: Lantian county is located at the north foot of the Qinling Mountains, and the southeast part of the Guanzhong Plain. Being the suburban county of Xi'an, Lantian was in ancient times on the thoroughfare between the states of Qin and Chu, and is one of the roads linking the central Shaanxi to provinces in the southeast. Lantian has an advantageous regional location, very convenient transportation and is within the half-hour metropolitan living circle of Xi'an. The direct distance from the county to the urban area of Shaanxi is only 22 kilometers.

Administrative division: the county has 18 townships, nine neighborhood committees and 337 village committees under its jurisdiction.

Population & dimension: the population of the county totals 656,049 (agricultural population is 470,949) of 191,773 households. The total area covers 2,006 square kilometers, accounting for 19.9 percent of the total dimension of Xi'an.

History & culture: Lantian is one of the places where ancestors of human beings originate and one of the earliest cradles of the Chinese civilization. The world renowned Lantian Jade is among the "top four famous jades" of China. According to the Rites of Zhou, "Lan (blue) is the color of beautiful jades", hence the county name Lantian (lit. blue field). In ancient times it belonged to the capital area, and the county was first established in the 23rd year (379 BC) of the reign of King of An of the Zhou Dynasty, and it has a history of over 2,300 years by now.

Natural landscape: Lantian is endowed with beautiful natural sceneries, and is one of the major tourism area in the northern foot of the Qinling tourism belt. The county abounds in tourism resources, where mountains are gorgeous and the waters beautiful, the plains elegant and the ranges stretching wide, and with the splendid natural sceneries there are a large number of cultural and natural scenic spots, including the world renowned Lantian Ape Man ruins at Gongwangling, Shuilu'an Temple which bears the name of "the second Dunhuang" with its treasure of wall sculptures, and the Buddhist Wuzhen Temple, which is the holy land of the Buddhist Pure Land Sect and the temple was built during the Sui and Tang dynasties (581-907), the tomb of Cai Wenji, a talented woman of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220), the underground magic palace of Wangchuan Carst Cave, the villa ruins of Wang Wei the great Tang poet, the attractive Tangquan Lake, and the Wangshun Mountain National Forest Park which not only bears the precipitous features of Mount Huashan but also the charms of Mount Huangshan.

Mineral resources: Lantian abounds in mineral resources, and is famed far and near as "the home of beautiful jades". Thirty-eight minerals were found in the county, of which 17 are metals including gold, silver, lead, and molybdenum, and over 20 different non-metal ores including granite, marble, kaolin clay and limestone. Lantian Jade is ranked one of the “top four beautiful jades” of China, and is listed into the first place of origin protection jade product. There are 17 proved mineral springs and five geotherm spots, Tangyu hot spring has been explored from the Tang Dynasty until today, and all of these spots have been widely explored.

In 2023, the county's GDP reached 16.13 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.2 percent.