Dingzhou City is the central city in the central part of Hebei Province, which is directly under the jurisdiction of Hebei Province and has two levels of social and economic management authority. Dingzhou is the ancient capital of Zhongshan with a history of more than 2,600 years. It is the main birthplace of Zhongshan culture, one of the three major historical cultures. Dingzhou is located between north latitude114 48 ˊ-1515 ˊ, north latitude 38 14 ˊ-38 40 ˊ, at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain and in the west of North China Plain. 20 13 Dingzhou has a total area of 1275 square kilometers, and it governs 4 streets, 14 towns and 7 townships. 20 15 Total population at the end of the year1244,000 people.

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Dingzhou is flat and endless. Shahe River, Mengliang River and Tanghe River cross the whole territory. The terrain is slightly inclined from northwest to southeast, and its natural landscape is divided into three landscape zones: foothill alluvial fan plain, alluvial plain and seaside plain. The slope of the ground is between 1.4%~0.7%, forming a micro-undulating landform of hills, depressions and alluvial fan plains such as sand hills and floodplains.

Dingzhou belongs to temperate-warm temperate semi-humid and semi-arid continental monsoon climate, which belongs to semi-humid and warm-humid climate zone. It is cold and dry in winter, with little snow, hot and dry winds in spring, high temperature and high humidity in summer, concentrated precipitation in autumn and fresh air. The annual average sunshine is 26 1 1.9 hours; The annual average temperature is 12.4℃, with little annual difference. The annual average ground temperature is 65438 09.6℃; The average annual precipitation is 503.2 mm; The annual average absolute humidity is 1 1.3 horsepower; The annual average evaporation is 19 10.4 mm; The annual wind direction is the highest in the northeast wind, followed by the south wind, and the annual average wind speed for many years is 2.4m/s.

In 2007, there were 27 ethnic minorities in Dingzhou * * *, the largest of which was the Hui nationality with a population of 28,354. The other 26 ethnic minorities are Manchu 198, Mongolian 88, Miao 49, Zhuang 48, Tujia 29, Buyi 17 and Bai 65447. Lisu 12, Dai 1 1, Naxi 165438, Yi 10. The rest 14 ethnic groups are Korean, Tu, Bulang, Gelao, Wa, Hani, Yao, Gaoshan, Qiang, Dong, Li, Shui, Uygur and She, with a population of less than 10.

Reference link: China Hebei-Dingzhou