Draft:Hengshanqiao Town

Hengshanqiao Town
横山桥镇
Country China
ProvinceJiangsu
CityChangzhou
DistrictWujin
Elevation
6 m (20 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total90,580[1]
Time zoneUTC+8
Geocode1808412

Hengshanqiao (Chinese: 横山桥镇) is a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Wujin District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, the People's Republic of China.[2] It is located in the province of Jiangsu, in the eastern part of the country, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) east of the provincial capital, Nanjing. The number of inhabitants is 90,580.[1] The population consists of 43,815 women and 46,765 men. Children under 15 make up 12%, adults 15-64 make up 78%, and seniors over 65 make up 8%.[1]

Geography and climate edit

Around Hengshanqiao, it is densely populated, with 849 inhabitants per square kilometer.[3] The nearest larger community is Changzhou, 14.9 kilometres (9.3 mi) west of Hengshanqiao. The area around Hengshanqiao consists mostly of agricultural land.[4]

Hengshanqiao has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) with hot and wet summers and cold and humid winters. Average annual rainfall [de] is 1,390 millimetres (55 in). The rainiest month is July, with an average of 250 millimetres (9.8 in) of precipitation , and the driest is January, with 38 millimetres (1.5 in) of precipitation.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "《中国2010年人口普查分乡、镇、街道资料》xls". baidu.com. National Bureau of Statistics of China. 2016-04-23.
  2. ^ Hengshanqiao Town in Geonames.org (cc-by)
  3. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2016-02-09.
  4. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2016-02-28.
  5. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19.

Category:Towns in Changzhou