Qingdao
Qingdao 青岛 | |
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青岛市 | |
 Clockwise frae tap left: A Stone biggin in Ba Da Guan, A hoose in the auld section o Qingdao, Qingdao TV Touer, Qingdao skyline an Zhan Qiao Pier, 4 Mey Square | |
 Location o Qingdao Ceety (yellae) in Shandong province | |
  Qingdao Location in Cheenae | |
| Coordinates: 36°04′N 120°23′E / 36.067°N 120.383°ECoordinates: 36°04′N 120°23′E / 36.067°N 120.383°E | |
| Kintra | Fowkrepublic o Cheenae |
| Province | Shandong |
| Municipal seat | Shinan Destrict |
| Govrenment | |
| • CPC Secretary | Li Qun (李群) |
| • Mayor | Zhang Xinqi (张新起) |
| Area | |
| • Sub-provincial ceety | 11026 km2 (4,257 sq mi) |
| • Laund | 11026 km2 (4,257 sq mi) |
| • Urban | 1411 km2 (545 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 3138 km2 (1,212 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Sub-provincial ceety | 8,715,100 |
| • Density | 790/km2 (2,000/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 3,718,800 |
| • Urban density | 2,600/km2 (6,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (Cheenae Staundart) |
| Postal code | 266000 |
| Area code(s) | 532 |
| GDP | RMB¥ 730.21 billion (2012) |
| GDP per capita | RMB¥ 65,827 (2010) |
| License Plate Prefix | 鲁B & 鲁U |
| Coastline | 862.64 km (536.02 mi) (inclusive of offshore islands) 730.64 km (454.00 mi) (exclusive of islands) |
| Major Naitionalities | Han: 99.86% |
| Coonty-level diveesions | 10 |
| Website | www.qingdao.gov.cn |
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| Semplifeed Cheenese | 青岛 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tradeetional Cheenese | 青島 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Postal | Tsingtao | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leeteral meanin | lush island or green island | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Qingdao (Cheenese: 青岛; pinyin: 
It borders Yantai tae the northeast, Weifang tae the wast an Rizhao tae the soothwast. Qīng (青) in Cheenese means "green" or "lush", while dǎo (岛) means "island". Qingdao is admeenistered at the sub-provincial level.
Lyin across the Shandong Peninsulae while leukin oot tae the Yellae Sea, Qingdao is a major seaport, naval base, an industrial centre. It is an aa the steid o the Tsingtao Brewery. The warld's langest sea bridge, the Qingdao Haiwan Bridge, airts the main urban aurie o Qingdao wi Huangdao destrict, straddlin the Jiaozhou Bay sea auries.[1] Qingdao is named Cheenae's maist livable ceety.[2][3][4][5]
Geografie an climate
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Qingdao is locatit on the sooth facin coast o the Shandong Peninsulae. It borders three prefectur-level ceeties, namely Yantai tae the northeast, Weifang tae the wast, an Rizhao tae the soothwast. The ceety's tot jurisdiction aurie occupies 10,654 square kilometre (4,114 sq mi), an stretches in latitude frae 35° 35' tae 37° 09' N an in longitude frae 119° 30' tae 121° 00' E. The populatit sections o the ceety are relatively flat while muntains spur up within ceety leemits an nearby. The heichest elevation in the ceety is 1,133 metre (3,717 ft) abuin sea level. 15.5% o the tot aurie is heichland, while the fithill, plain an laichland auries constitute 25.1%, 37.8% an 21.7%. The ceety haes a 730.64 kilometre (454.00 mi) coastline. Five significant rivers that flow for mair nor 50 kilometre (31 mi) can be foond in the region.
Qingdao haes a temperate, fower-saison, monsoon-influenced[7] climate that lies in the transeetion atween the humid subtropical (Köppen Cwa) an humid continental (Köppen Dwa) regimes, but favourin the umwhile. Winter is cuil tae cauld an windy, but generally dry, wi a Januar average o −0.5 °C (31.1 °F). Simmer is generally het an humid, but very het days are rare, wi an August average o 25.3 °C (77.5 °F). Due tae its proximity tae the coast an bein on a peninsulae, it experiences an ane-month delayed ware compared tae maist inland auries o Cheenae,[7] an the annual diurnal temperatur variation is anly 6.3 °C (11.3 °F). Conversely, hairst is milder than inland auries in Shandong. The watter temperature peaks at aboot 25 °C (77 °F) in late August, wi soummin possible twa month on aither side. The annual mean temperature is 12.6 °C (54.7 °F).
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average heich °C (°F) | 2.8 (37.0) |
4.6 (40.3) |
9.0 (48.2) |
15.0 (59.0) |
20.3 (68.5) |
23.7 (74.7) |
27.1 (80.8) |
28.4 (83.1) |
25.3 (77.5) |
19.8 (67.6) |
12.3 (54.1) |
5.7 (42.3) |
16.2 (61.1) |
| Average law °C (°F) | −3.3 (26.1) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
2.3 (36.1) |
7.9 (46.2) |
13.2 (55.8) |
17.8 (64.0) |
22.2 (72.0) |
23.0 (73.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
13.1 (55.6) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−0.5 (31.1) |
9.9 (49.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 11.3 (0.44) |
12.1 (0.48) |
21.4 (0.84) |
34.6 (1.36) |
54.9 (2.16) |
84.0 (3.31) |
142.1 (5.59) |
151.1 (5.95) |
62.7 (2.47) |
48.2 (1.90) |
27.9 (1.10) |
11.8 (0.46) |
662.1 (26.06) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 3.1 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 6.7 | 7.5 | 9.4 | 12.4 | 10.2 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 4.7 | 3.4 | 78.4 |
| Mean monthly sunshine oors | 186.0 | 180.8 | 220.1 | 222.0 | 244.9 | 219.0 | 182.9 | 223.2 | 219.0 | 220.1 | 189.0 | 182.9 | 2,489.9 |
| Source: Cheena Wather (1971−2000),[8] Hong Kong Observatory (sun only, 1961−1990)[6] | |||||||||||||
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin touns — Sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Qingdao is twinned wi:
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Friendly co-operative ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Qingdao is a friendly co-operative ceety o the follaein ceeties aroond the warld.
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References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ A bridge too far? China unveils world's longest sea bridge which is five miles FURTHER than the Dover-Calais crossing | Mail Online. Dailymail.co.uk. Retrieved on 2011-08-28.
- ↑ "List of 10 Most Livable Cities in China Issued". 9 Julie 2009. Archived frae the original on 26 Apryle 2011. Retrieved 18 December 2010.
- ↑ 蔺丽瑶 (27 Julie 2011). "Top 10 livable cities in China 2011". China.org.cn. Retrieved 10 September 2012.
- ↑ [1] Archived 2013-04-10 at Archive.today
- ↑ [2][deid airtin]
- ↑ a b "Climatological Normals of Qingdao". Hong Kong Observatory. Archived frae the original on 22 November 2008. Retrieved 10 Apryle 2010.
- ↑ a b "自然地理" (in Simplified Chinese). Qingdao: Shinan District Information Office. Archived frae the original on 2 Juin 2010. Retrieved 13 Mey 2013. Unknown parameter
|trans_title=ignored (help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link) - ↑ "青岛城市介绍" (in Simplified Chinese). Weather.com.cn. Juin 2011. Retrieved 1 Juin 2011.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
- ↑ [3][deid airtin]
Freemit airtins
[eedit | eedit soorce]Media relatit tae Qingdao at Wikimedia Commons
- Qingdao Government website Archived 2020-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Cheenese)
