Huimin County () is a county of northwestern

Shandong Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...

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 freezing ...

(

Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer * Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan * Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...

''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 A subdistrict or sub-district is an administrative division that is generally smaller than a district. Equivalents * Administrative posts of East Timor, formerly Portuguese-language * Kelurahan, in Indonesia * Mukim, a township in Brunei, Indon ...

and 12

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

in the county: Subdistricts: * Sunwu Subdistrict (), Wudingfu Subdistrict (), Hefang Subdistrict () Towns: * Shimiao (), Sangluoshu (), Zijiao (),

Huji Huji or HUJI may refer to: *Hebrew University of Jerusalem, university in Israel *Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami, Islamic fundamentalist organization *Hukou system (户籍), household registration system in mainland China and the Republic of China (Taiw ...

(), Lizhuang (), Madian (), Weiji (), Qinghe (), Jianglou (), Xindian (), Danianchen (), Zaohuli ()

References

External links

Official site
{{Authority control Counties of Shandong Binzhou