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Qiongshan 琼山区 Kiungshan; Chiungshan | |
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Coordinates: 20°00′12″N110°21′14″E / 20.0032°N 110.3540°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Hainan |
Prefecture-level city | Haikou |
Area | |
• Total | 928.62 km2 (358.54 sq mi) |
Population (2002) | |
• Total | 360,000 |
• Density | 390/km2 (1,000/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (China standard time) |
Qiongshan | |||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 琼山 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 瓊山 | ||||||||
Postal | Kiungshan | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Jade Mountain | ||||||||
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Former names | |||||||||
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Qiongzhou | |||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 瓊州 | ||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 琼州 | ||||||||
Postal | Kiungchow | ||||||||
Literal meaning | Jade Prefecture | ||||||||
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Qiongshan District,alternately romanized as Kiungshan,is a district in Haikou City,Hainan.
As Qiongzhou,formerly romanized as Kiungchow, [a] the district was formerly a separate city which served as the center of Chinese administration on Hainan Island when it formed a part of Guangdong Province. [1]
The British Consulate in Kiungchow was opened in April 1876,as a result of the Treaty of Tientsin in 1858. [2]
Dongzhai Port Nature Reserve is located in the district and has an area of 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres). It includes six rivers,an irregular coastline,and a number of bays and tidewater gullies. The mangrove forest on the south coast provides a habitat for birds and other wildlife. [3]
Climate data for Qiongshan District,elevation 10 m (33 ft),(1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 21.2 (70.2) | 22.9 (73.2) | 26.6 (79.9) | 30.1 (86.2) | 32.5 (90.5) | 33.7 (92.7) | 33.4 (92.1) | 32.6 (90.7) | 31.1 (88.0) | 28.9 (84.0) | 26.0 (78.8) | 22.3 (72.1) | 28.4 (83.2) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 18.3 (64.9) | 19.5 (67.1) | 22.6 (72.7) | 25.8 (78.4) | 28.1 (82.6) | 29.1 (84.4) | 29.1 (84.4) | 28.6 (83.5) | 27.8 (82.0) | 26.1 (79.0) | 23.3 (73.9) | 19.8 (67.6) | 24.8 (76.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 16.3 (61.3) | 17.3 (63.1) | 20.1 (68.2) | 23.1 (73.6) | 25.3 (77.5) | 26.2 (79.2) | 26.2 (79.2) | 26.0 (78.8) | 25.5 (77.9) | 23.9 (75.0) | 21.4 (70.5) | 18.0 (64.4) | 22.4 (72.4) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 28.1 (1.11) | 32.3 (1.27) | 43.6 (1.72) | 96.6 (3.80) | 208.0 (8.19) | 251.0 (9.88) | 243.3 (9.58) | 302.7 (11.92) | 284.7 (11.21) | 263.3 (10.37) | 63.7 (2.51) | 42.4 (1.67) | 1,859.7 (73.23) |
Average precipitation days (≥0.1 mm) | 9.1 | 9.7 | 9.7 | 11.1 | 16.0 | 16.7 | 16.0 | 15.2 | 14.7 | 11.1 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 146.1 |
Average relative humidity (%) | 85 | 86 | 84 | 82 | 80 | 79 | 79 | 81 | 82 | 79 | 79 | 80 | 81 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 92.3 | 96.9 | 130.9 | 165.2 | 215.5 | 217.6 | 238.3 | 215.7 | 181.5 | 171.7 | 128.3 | 98.8 | 1,952.7 |
Percentage possible sunshine | 27 | 30 | 35 | 44 | 53 | 55 | 59 | 55 | 50 | 48 | 39 | 29 | 44 |
Source:China Meteorological Administration [4] [5] |
Mandarin is the official language of administration and education,but locals also speak Haikou dialect of Hainanese (a Min language),while other ethnic groups also speak the Qiongshan dialect of Lingao.