Gaizhou
盖州市
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Location in Yingkou
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  Gaizhou Location in Liaoning | |
| Coordinates: 40°24′N 122°21′E / 40.400°N 122.350°E / 40.400; 122.350 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Liaoning |
| Prefecture-level city | Yingkou |
| Area | |
| • County-level city | 2,930.0 km2 (1,131.3 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 150.00 km2 (57.92 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 9.1 m (30 ft) |
| Population
(2017)[1]
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| • County-level city | 704,000 |
| • Density | 240/km2 (620/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 231,100 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Gaizhou | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蓋州 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 盖州 | ||||||||
| Postal | Kaichow Kaihsien (1965–1992) Kaiping (until 1965) | ||||||||
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| Gaixian | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蓋縣 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 盖县 | ||||||||
| Postal | Kaihsien | ||||||||
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| Gaiping | |||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 蓋平 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 盖平 | ||||||||
| Postal | Kaiping | ||||||||
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Gaizhou (simplified Chinese: 盖州; traditional Chinese: 蓋州; pinyin: Gàizhōu), formerly Gaixian, Gaiping, and Kaiping, is a county-level cityinLiaoning province, China. It is under the administration of Yingkou City, which lies 31 km (19 mi) to the north-northwest, and is located at the northwest end of the Liaodong Peninsula near the northeast coast of the Bohai Sea.
There are six subdistricts, 18 towns, and three townships under the city's administration.[2]
Subdistricts:
Towns:
Townships:
| Climate data for Gaizhou (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 9.9 (49.8) |
19.0 (66.2) |
22.7 (72.9) |
29.8 (85.6) |
34.7 (94.5) |
36.6 (97.9) |
36.8 (98.2) |
36.1 (97.0) |
33.3 (91.9) |
27.7 (81.9) |
21.5 (70.7) |
16.2 (61.2) |
36.8 (98.2) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −2.5 (27.5) |
1.6 (34.9) |
8.5 (47.3) |
17.0 (62.6) |
23.5 (74.3) |
27.3 (81.1) |
29.6 (85.3) |
29.1 (84.4) |
24.9 (76.8) |
17.4 (63.3) |
7.9 (46.2) |
0.3 (32.5) |
15.4 (59.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −7.8 (18.0) |
−3.6 (25.5) |
3.3 (37.9) |
11.7 (53.1) |
18.3 (64.9) |
22.7 (72.9) |
25.5 (77.9) |
24.8 (76.6) |
19.5 (67.1) |
11.7 (53.1) |
2.7 (36.9) |
−4.9 (23.2) |
10.3 (50.6) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −12.2 (10.0) |
−8.2 (17.2) |
−1.4 (29.5) |
6.5 (43.7) |
13.0 (55.4) |
18.1 (64.6) |
21.8 (71.2) |
20.8 (69.4) |
14.5 (58.1) |
6.7 (44.1) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
5.7 (42.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −28.2 (−18.8) |
−22.0 (−7.6) |
−13.3 (8.1) |
−7.1 (19.2) |
2.5 (36.5) |
8.1 (46.6) |
14.9 (58.8) |
9.5 (49.1) |
2.9 (37.2) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−23.2 (−9.8) |
−28.2 (−18.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.8 (0.15) |
7.3 (0.29) |
11.4 (0.45) |
33.3 (1.31) |
54.9 (2.16) |
72.3 (2.85) |
141.2 (5.56) |
165.2 (6.50) |
50.4 (1.98) |
35.5 (1.40) |
20.6 (0.81) |
8.9 (0.35) |
604.8 (23.81) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 6.0 | 7.5 | 9.0 | 11.1 | 10.0 | 6.4 | 6.3 | 4.9 | 3.5 | 73.8 |
| Average snowy days | 4.0 | 3.5 | 2.8 | 0.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 18.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 57 | 53 | 50 | 49 | 54 | 65 | 75 | 77 | 69 | 63 | 60 | 59 | 61 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 189.0 | 190.6 | 229.9 | 236.1 | 266.4 | 230.2 | 202.8 | 212.6 | 228.1 | 212.6 | 171.4 | 170.8 | 2,540.5 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 63 | 63 | 62 | 59 | 60 | 51 | 45 | 51 | 62 | 62 | 58 | 59 | 58 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[3][4] | |||||||||||||
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