Zouqu Town
邹区镇
Country China
ProvinceJiangsu
CityChangzhou
DistrictZhonglou
Elevation
7 m (23 ft)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total97,530[1]
Time zoneUTC+8
Geocode1783638

Zouqu Town (Chinese: 邹区镇) is a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Zhonglou 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 100 kilometres (62 mi) east of the provincial capital, Nanjing. The number of inhabitants is 97,530.[1] The population consists of 46,697 women and 50,833 men. Children under 15 make up 12%, adults 15-64 make up 80%, and seniors over 65 make up 7%.[1]

Geography and climate edit

Around Zouqu, it is densely populated, with 982 inhabitants per square kilometer.[3] The nearest larger community is Changzhou, 11.1 kilometres (6.9 mi) northwest of Zouqu. The area around Zouqu consists mostly of agricultural land.[4]

Zouqu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) with hot and wet summers and cold and humid winters. Average annual rainfall [de] is 1,525 millimetres (60.0 in). The rainiest month is July, with an average of 289 millimetres (11.4 in) of precipitation , and the driest is January, with 43 millimetres (1.7 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. ^ Zouqu 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