Lingkou Town Explained

Lingkou Town
Official Name:陵口镇
Settlement Type:Town
Translit Lang1 Info:Lingkou
Pushpin Map:China Jiangsu
Pushpin Mapsize:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Province
Subdivision Name1:Jiangsu
Subdivision Type2:City
Subdivision Name2:Zhenjiang
Subdivision Type3:County-level city
Subdivision Name3:Danyang
Elevation M:8
Population As Of:2010
Population Total:43418
Utc Offset1:+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. It is located in the province of Jiangsu, in the eastern part of the country, about east of the provincial capital, Nanjing. The number of inhabitants is 43,418. 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%.

Geography and climate

Around Lingkou it is very densely populated, with 982 inhabitants per square kilometer. The nearest larger community is Menghe, east of Lingkou. The area around Lingkou consists mostly of agricultural land.

Lingkou has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cfa) with hot and wet summers and cold and humid winters. Average is . The wettest month is July, with an average of of precipitation, and the driest is January, with of precipitation.

References

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Notes and References

  1. Book: zh:中国2010年人口普查分乡、镇、街道资料. 2012. National Bureau of Statistics of China. Chinese Statistics . 9787503766602. Feng Nailin (冯乃林).
  2. Lingkou Town
  3. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Population Density. 2016-01-30. NASA/SEDAC. https://web.archive.org/web/20160209064446/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=SEDAC_POP. 2016-02-09.
  4. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification. 2016-01-30. NASA/MODIS. https://web.archive.org/web/20160228161657/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=MCD12C1_T1. 2016-02-28.
  5. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 2016-01-30. NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075534/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M. 2020-05-11.