Yangquan

Yangquan (simplified Chinese: 阳泉; traditional Chinese: 陽泉; pinyin: Yángquán [jǎŋtɕʰyǎn]) is a prefecture-level city in the east of Shanxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Hebei province to the east. Known as "Rippling Spring" in ancient times, it lies on the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau and the western side of the Taihang Mountains. Yangquan occupies a total area of 4,452 square kilometres (1,719 sq mi). According to the 2020 census, Yangquan had a population of 1,318,505, of which 1,037,456 lived in the built-up (or metro) area consists of 3 urban districts plus Pingding County.[2] Yangquan is a new industrial city in Shanxi province. It belongs to the warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon climate zone. Yangquan City covers two counties and three districts. Yangquan has a rather dry, monsoon-influenced humid continental climate /semi-arid climate (Köppen Dwa/BSk),[4] with cold and very dry winters, and hot, somewhat humid summers. The monthly average 24-hour temperature ranges from −3.2 °C (26.2 °F) in January to 24.3 °C (75.7 °F) in July, and the annual average is 11.5 °C (52.7 °F). The diurnal temperature variation, which does not exceed 13 °C (23 °F) in any month, is not large by provincial standards. More than 70% of the annual rainfall, which ranges from 450 to 550 millimetres (18 to 22 in) throughout the entire city, falls in the months from June to September; sunshine totals 2700–2900 hours annually throughout the city, and the frost-free period lasts 130–180 days. Yangquan is located on the west side of the central Taihang Mountains, it is bounded by Xinzhou's Dingxiang County and Wutai County in the north, Shijiazhuang's Pingshan County and Jingjing County in the east, Jinzhong's Xiyang County in the south, and Jinzhong's Shouyang County and Taiyuan's Yangqu County in the west. It is about 106 km long from north to south and about 42 km wide from east to west. The city has a total area of 4,559 square kilometres.[8]