Qinglong Manchu Autonomous County (, Manchu: ; Mölendroff: cinglung manju beye dasangga siyan) is a Manchu

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in northeastern

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province, China, bordering Liaoning Province to the north and east and located in the eastern part of the

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. It is under the administration of the

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, and, , had a population of 520,000 residing in an area of . Bordering county-level divisions are: Lingyuan and

Jianchang County Jianchang () is a county of Huludao City in the southwest of Liaoning province, China. It is the largest division of Huludao, with an area of , and population of 600,000, located in mountainous terrain west of that city, serviced by China Nationa ...

(Liaoning) to the north, Liaoning's Suizhong County and Qinhuangdao city proper to the east, Qian'an and

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to the south, and Kuancheng Manchu Autonomous County and Qianxi County to the west. During the

1976 Tangshan earthquake The 1976 Tangshan earthquake () was a 7.6 earthquake that hit the region around Tangshan, Hebei, China, at 3:42 a.m. on 28 July 1976. The maximum intensity of the earthquake was XI (''Extreme'') on the Mercalli scale. In minutes, 85 percen ...

180,000 buildings in Qinglong collapsed, but no fatalities occurred.

Administrative divisions

Qinglong administers 11 towns and 14 townships, which in turn control 396 villages:

Climate

Qinglong 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 osci ...

-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 ...

(

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''Dwa''), with long, cold, and very dry winters, and hot, rainy summers. Spring and autumn are short with some rainfall. The monthly 24-hour average temperature in January is , and in July, and the annual mean is . The mountainous location means that

diurnal temperature variation In meteorology, diurnal temperature variation is the variation between a high air temperature and a low temperature that occurs during the same day. Temperature lag Temperature lag is an important factor in diurnal temperature variation: peak da ...

is rather large, but precipitation is enhanced: the total precipitation is , with close to 60% of it falling in July and August alone.

References

Manchu autonomous counties County-level divisions of Hebei Qinhuangdao {{Qinhuangdao-geo-stub