Lianhua County 莲花县 Lienhwa | |
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 Lianhua is the southernmost division in this map of Pingxiang | |
 Pingxiang in Jiangxi | |
| Coordinates:27°07′40″N113°57′41″E / 27.1277°N 113.9615°E /27.1277; 113.9615 | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Jiangxi |
| Prefecture-level city | Pingxiang |
| Area | |
• Total | 1,072 km2 (414 sq mi) |
| Population ((2018)) | 279,400 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 337100 |
Lianhua County (simplified Chinese:莲花县;traditional Chinese:蓮花縣;pinyin:Liánhuā Xiàn) is acounty in the west ofJiangxi province, China, borderingHunan province to the west. It is the southernmostcounty-level division of theprefecture-level city ofPingxiang.
Lianhua lies in theLuoxiao Mountains, somewhat north ofJinggangshan.
Hard on the Hunan border, Lianhua was the headquarters of the (South-)Eastern Hunan Red Army Independent Division, and thus the administrative centre for theHunan-Jiangxi Soviet, a constituent part of theChinese Soviet Republic of the early 1930s.
Lianhua County has 5 towns and 8 townships.[1]
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| Climate data for Lianhua, elevation 195 m (640 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 25.5 (77.9) | 30.6 (87.1) | 34.5 (94.1) | 35.2 (95.4) | 36.9 (98.4) | 37.3 (99.1) | 40.5 (104.9) | 41.1 (106.0) | 38.0 (100.4) | 37.3 (99.1) | 32.5 (90.5) | 25.5 (77.9) | 41.1 (106.0) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.6 (51.1) | 13.5 (56.3) | 17.1 (62.8) | 23.7 (74.7) | 28.0 (82.4) | 30.8 (87.4) | 34.1 (93.4) | 33.4 (92.1) | 30.0 (86.0) | 25.4 (77.7) | 19.6 (67.3) | 13.6 (56.5) | 23.3 (74.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.5 (43.7) | 8.9 (48.0) | 12.5 (54.5) | 18.4 (65.1) | 22.9 (73.2) | 26.0 (78.8) | 28.6 (83.5) | 27.9 (82.2) | 24.6 (76.3) | 19.6 (67.3) | 13.9 (57.0) | 8.4 (47.1) | 18.2 (64.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 3.7 (38.7) | 5.8 (42.4) | 9.4 (48.9) | 14.8 (58.6) | 19.2 (66.6) | 22.7 (72.9) | 24.6 (76.3) | 24.2 (75.6) | 20.9 (69.6) | 15.6 (60.1) | 10.0 (50.0) | 4.9 (40.8) | 14.7 (58.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −5.4 (22.3) | −3.8 (25.2) | −3.5 (25.7) | 1.9 (35.4) | 8.5 (47.3) | 13.1 (55.6) | 16.6 (61.9) | 17.9 (64.2) | 12.2 (54.0) | 2.4 (36.3) | −2.1 (28.2) | −8.8 (16.2) | −8.8 (16.2) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 84.1 (3.31) | 97.7 (3.85) | 195.3 (7.69) | 207.0 (8.15) | 235.9 (9.29) | 263.6 (10.38) | 153.4 (6.04) | 140.5 (5.53) | 80.3 (3.16) | 60.1 (2.37) | 87.2 (3.43) | 60.4 (2.38) | 1,665.5 (65.58) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.1 mm) | 15.0 | 15.0 | 19.5 | 18.2 | 17.2 | 16.5 | 11.5 | 14.1 | 10.4 | 8.9 | 11.3 | 11.4 | 169 |
| Average snowy days | 2.7 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 5.6 |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 81 | 81 | 82 | 80 | 80 | 81 | 75 | 77 | 78 | 76 | 78 | 78 | 79 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 62.9 | 62.6 | 70.5 | 99.3 | 123.2 | 128.5 | 214.7 | 191.1 | 151.2 | 136.8 | 118.0 | 104.8 | 1,463.6 |
| Percentagepossible sunshine | 19 | 20 | 19 | 26 | 29 | 31 | 51 | 48 | 41 | 39 | 37 | 33 | 33 |
| Source:China Meteorological Administration[2][3] | |||||||||||||