Wuchuan City
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Wuchuan 吴川市 |
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 Wuchuan
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| Coordinates: 21°27′N 110°45′E / 21.450°N 110.750°ECoordinates: 21°27′N 110°45′E / 21.450°N 110.750°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Guangdong |
| Prefecture-level city | Zhanjiang |
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| • Total | 860.9 km2 (332.4 sq mi) |
| Population (2010 census) | |
| • Total | 927,275 |
| • Density | 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | China Standard (UTC+8) |
| Website | Official website |
| Wuchuan, Guangdong | |||||||||
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| Literal meaning | Wu River(s) | ||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Wúchuān |
| Wade–Giles | Wu-ch‘uan |
Wuchuan is a county-level city of Guangdong, China. It is administered as part of the prefecture-level city of Zhanjiang. The total area of Wuchuan is 848.5 square kilometers (327.6 sq mi), with an estimated population of 1,111,394 in 2013. The area is low and even. The annual average temperature is 23 °C (73 °F), with annual rainfall of about 1,600 mm (63 in).
Under the Sui, Wuchuan was a small county called Wujiang from the nearby Jian River. Under the Qing, Wuchuan was administered from Gaozhou Commandery (now a county-level city within neighboring Maoming Prefecture). In May 26, 1994, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China agreed to Wuchuan County's elevation to county-level city status and placed it under the administration of Zhanjiang.
Wuchuan sits on the Jian River on the China's southeastern coast, and it is bounded by Zhanjiang Potou District, Lianjiang District and Maoming city. Wuchuan is to the southwest of the city of Guangzhou on an inlet of the South China Sea. It is on the eastern coast of the Leizhou Peninsula.
This area is low and even. The annual average temperature is 23 degrees Celsius. The annual rainfall in this area is about 1600 mm. The average winter temperatures range of Zhanjiang is between 8 and 17 degrees with summer temperatures between 25 and 29 degrees.The city enjoys a tropical and subtropical monsoon climate with low altitudes, north of the tropic of cancer. Influenced by the ocean climate, Zhanjiang escapes the heat of the summer and chilliness of the winter.
The dialect in downtown districts is Cantonese, while the people in most counties speak Hainanese (or Leizhou dialect as it is referred to locally). The dialect in Lianjiang County is Hakka. The time zone for Zhanjiang, as with all locations in the People's Republic of China, is Beijing time (GMT +8). Jianjiang drainage basin is a region where people of Han nationality and the other Baiyue ethnic groups had lived toghter in history. Local authorities which are subordinated to the central government of Han nationality habe been established since the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The establishment of the local government of Luozhou and Gaozhou and their close relationships with Guangzhou have promoted the Hanization of the local Baiyue ethnic groups, which in turn made the formation of the Wuchuan-Huazhou Cantonese, a dialectal Chinese, come into being.
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