Shuimen She Ethnic Township

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Shuimen

水门
Shuimen 水门
Town
	Shuimen She Ethnic Township; 水门畲族乡
	Shuimen Shuimen
	Coordinates: 26°58′13″N 120°04′19″E / 26.97028°N 120.07194°E
Population (2010)
• Total	12,773
Time zone	UTC+8

Shuimen She Ethnic Township (水门畲族乡) is a township in Xiapu County, Fujian, China.

Demographics

Shuimen is located in Fujian province, in the southeastern part of the country, 1,500 km south of Beijing. Its elevation is 354 meters above sea level^[1] and it has a population of12,773 people. The population consists of 5,967 females and 6,806 males. 15.0% were children under the age of 15, 73% adults aged 15–64, and 11.0% over 65.^{[citation needed]}

Geography

The land around Shuimen is hilly.^[a] There are about 214 people per square kilometer around Shuimen.^[3] The nearest larger town is Songcheng, 12.0 km southwest of Shuimen. The area around Shuimen is almost covered with mixed forest.^[4] In the region around Shuimen, islands are unusually common.^[b]

Climate

The climate is subtropical.^[5] The average temperature is 17 °C. The warmest month is July, at 24 °C, and the coldest December, at 7 °C.^[6] The average rainfall is 1,950 millimeters per year. The wettest month is June, with 274 millimeters of rain, and the wettest October, with 71 millimeters.^[7]

Notes

^ Calculated from the contention of all length data (DEM 3 ") from Viewfinder Panoramas, within a 10 kilometer radius.^[2] The full algorithm is available here.
^ More than 20 kilometers away compared to the average density of the Earth, according to GeoNames.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Shuimen sa Geonames.org (cc-by); post updated 2012-01-18; database download sa 2017-02-07
^ "Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model". 2015-06-21.
^ "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. S2CID 9654551. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ ^a ^b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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[3] Calculated from the contention of all length data (DEM 3 ") from Viewfinder Panoramas, within a 10 kilometer radius.^[2] The full algorithm is available here.

[6] More than 20 kilometers away compared to the average density of the Earth, according to GeoNames.^[1]

[gn1794441-1] Shuimen sa Geonames.org (cc-by); post updated 2012-01-18; database download sa 2017-02-07

[vp-2] "Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model". 2015-06-21.

[nasapop-4] "NASA Earth Observations: Population Density". NASA/SEDAC. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

[nasalandcover-5] "NASA Earth Observations: Land Cover Classification". NASA/MODIS. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

[koppen-7] Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. S2CID 9654551. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

[nasa-8] "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

[nasarain-9] "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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