Huanghua () is a

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located in the Bohai Gulf coastal region of

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province, China. It is under the jurisdiction of the

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. Huanghua is named after Chinese Communist revolutionary

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. Previously it was known as Xinqing County (). It has a total area of , with a coastline of . The total administrative population is 419,700 in the entire county, with 120,000 people living in the urban area of . Huanghua has a

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, Huanghua Port. It is a stop on the Jinshan Expressway that connects

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with Shantou,

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Administrative divisions

Subdistricts: * Huazhong Subdistrict (), Huadong Subdistrict (), Huaxi Subdistrict () Towns: * Huanghua Town (), Nanpaihe (), Jiucheng (), Lüqiao () Townships: * Guanzhuang Township (), Changguo Township (), Qijiawu Township (), Tengzhuangzi Township (), Yang'erzhuang Hui Ethnic Township (), Xincun Hui Ethnic Township (), Yangsanmu Hui Ethnic Township ()

Climate

Huanghua has a four-season,

monsoon A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal osci ...

-influenced

humid continental A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...

climate (

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''Dwa''), with cold, dry winters, and hot, humid summers. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from to , while the annual mean is . Close to 60% of the annual rainfall of occurs in July and August alone.

References

External links

Huanghua Government Website
County-level cities in Hebei Cangzhou {{Cangzhou-geo-stub