Linqing | |
Other Name: | Lintsing, Lin-ch'ing |
Settlement Type: | County-level city |
Coordinates: | 36.8494°N 115.7061°W |
Pushpin Map: | China Shandong |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Shandong |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | People's Republic of China |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Shandong |
Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture-level city |
Subdivision Name2: | Liaocheng |
Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 950 |
Population As Of: | 2019 |
Population Footnotes: | [2] |
Population Total: | 759100 |
Timezone: | China Standard |
Utc Offset: | +8 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Postal Code: | 252600 |
Linqing is a county-level city under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Liaocheng in western Shandong Province, China.
It is located north-northwest of Liaocheng. The city is situated at the confluence of the Wei River and the Grand Canal. It is from Beijing on the Beijing–Kowloon railway line to Hong Kong. Elevation within Linqing County ranges from 29to above sea level. The area of the county is 955km2.The annual average temperature is, the highest recorded temperature 41.4C, and the lowest recorded temperature NaNC. Annual mean precipitation is 590.4mm. There are 205 frost-free days per year on average and the average annual sunshine is 2661 hours.
Linqing has played an important role in the history of China. In Ming and Qing times it was a great center for the distribution of textiles, grain and bricks and is also famous as the place where the tiles of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City were produced. Today the city's flourishing economy is based on a number of light industrial enterprises.
Aside from the Grand Canal, sights include a distinctive promontory, a stupa, a Ming-dynasty Hui mosques (Linqing Northern Mosque,, Linqing Eastern Mosque,), and ruins of the old customs house, Linqing City Museum (in a historical building ensemble known as the). In particular, the Sheli Pagoda near the Grand Canal is a well-known local landmark.
As 2012, this city is divided to four subdistricts, eight towns and three townships.[3]
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The city proper has about residents (January 2000), whereas Linqing as a whole had inhabitants in 1999.[4]
Once visited by the missionary and sinologist Matteo Ricci, Linqing has been the seat of a Latin Catholic Mission sui juris of Linqing / Lintsing since it was split off from the Apostolic Vicariate of Tsinanfu on 24 June 1927. It was promoted to Apostolic prefecture of Linqing / Lintsing / Lintsingen(sis) (Latin) (pre-diocesan jurisdiction, not entitled to a titular bishop) on 5 April 1931. It remains exempt, i.e. directly dependent on the Holy See and its missionary Roman Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The see has been vacant, without Apostolic administrator, since the third incumbent's death in 1981.[5]
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