Huimin County () is a county of northwestern

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal Provinces of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in His ...

province, People's Republic of China. It is under the administration of

Binzhou Binzhou (, ), formerly Putai, is a prefecture-level city in northern Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China. The city proper sits on the northern bank of the Yellow River, while its administrative area straddles both sides of its ...

City. The population in 1999 was 620,335.

Geography and climate

Huimin County has a

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 oscil ...

-influenced,

humid continental climate 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 ...

( Köppen ''Dwa''), with hot, humid summers, and cold, very dry winters. The monthly 24-hour average temperatures ranges from in January to in July, and the annual mean is . A majority of the annual precipitation occurs in July and August alone. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 47% in July to 63% in October, the county receives 2,563 hours of bright sunshine annually, sunshine is abundant except during the summer months.

Administrative divisions

There are three subdistricts and 12

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in the county: Subdistricts: *

Sunwu Subdistrict Sunwu County () is a county under the administration of Heihe City in the north of Heilongjiang province, China, situated on the bank of Amur River, which demarcates the Sino-Russian border. The length of border line within Sunwu county is . Sunw ...

(), Wudingfu Subdistrict (), Hefang Subdistrict () Towns: * Shimiao (), Sangluoshu (), Zijiao (), Huji (), Lizhuang (), Madian (), Weiji (), Qinghe (), Jianglou (), Xindian (), Danianchen (), Zaohuli ()

References

External links

Official site
{{Authority control Counties of Shandong Binzhou