Lingkou Town

Lingkou Town
Lingkou Town
Town
	陵口镇
	View of Lingkou Town
	Lingkou Town
	Coordinates: 31°57′07″N 119°39′44″E / 31.95194°N 119.66222°E
Country	China
Province	Jiangsu
City	Zhenjiang
County-level city	Danyang
Elevation	8 m (26 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	43,418
Time zone	UTC+8
Geocode	1803501

Lingkou Town (Chinese: 陵口镇) is a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Danyang, Zhenjiang, 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 81 kilometres (50 mi) east of the provincial capital, Nanjing. The number of inhabitants is 43,418.^[1] The population consists of 21,585 women and 21,833 men. Children under 15 make up 9%, adults 15-64 make up 78%, and seniors over 65 make up 12%.^[1]

Geography and climate[edit]

Around Lingkou it is very densely populated, with 982 inhabitants per square kilometer.^[3] The nearest larger community is Menghe, 19.8 kilometres (12.3 mi) east of Lingkou. The area around Lingkou consists mostly of agricultural land.^[4]

Lingkou has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) with hot and wet summers and cold and humid winters. Average annual rainfall [sv] 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.
^ Lingkou Town in Geonames.org (cc-by)
^ "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/MODIS. 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 2020-05-11.

[chinapop-1] 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.

[gn1803501-2] Lingkou Town in Geonames.org (cc-by)

[nasapop-3] "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2016-02-09.

[nasalandcover-4] "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2016-02-28.

[nasarain-5] "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 2016-01-30. Archived from the original on 2020-05-11.

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