Xixiashu Town
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Xixiashu Town | |
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| 西夏墅镇 | |
 A welcome sign in Xixiashu Town | |
  Xixiashu Town  Xixiashu Town | |
| Coordinates: 31°57′15″N 119°48′57″E / 31.95417°N 119.81583°E | |
| Country |  China |
| Province | Jiangsu |
| City | Changzhou |
| District | Xinbei |
| Elevation | 10 m (30 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 44,474[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+8 |
| Geocode | 1788199 |
Xixiashu Town (Chinese: 西夏墅镇) is a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Xinbei 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 97 kilometres (60 mi) east of the provincial capital, Nanjing. The number of inhabitants is 44,474 in 2010.[1] The population consists of 21,765 women and 22,709 men. Children under 15 make up 10.0%, adults 15-64 make up 77%, and seniors over 65 make up 11.0%.[1]
Geography and climate[edit]
Around Xixiashu, it is very densely populated, with 2,261 inhabitants per square kilometer.[3] The nearest larger community is Chunjiang, 15.7 kilometres (9.8 mi) east of Xixiashu. The area around Xixiashu consists mostly of agricultural land.[4]
Xixiashu has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) with hot and wet summers and cold and humid winters. Average annual rainfall is 1,525 millimetres (60.0 in). The wettest 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]
- ^ a b c National Bureau of Statistics of China (2012). Feng Nailin (冯乃林) (ed.). 中国2010年人口普查分乡、镇、街道资料. Chinese Statistics. ISBN 9787503766602.
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- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2016-02-09.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/SEDAC. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2016-02-28.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2019-04-19.