Qiongshan, Haikou
District in Hainan, People's Republic of China
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Qiongshan District, alternately romanized as Kiungshan, is a district in Haikou City, Hainan.
Qiongshan
琼山区 Kiungshan; Chiungshan | |
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  Qiongshan Location in Hainan | |
| Coordinates: 20°00′12″N 110°21′14″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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History
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]
Geography
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
| 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] | |||||||||||||
Demographics
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.
