Laoling (simplified Chinese: 乐陵; traditional Chinese: 樂陵; pinyin: Làolíng[3]), often mispronounced as Leling, is a county-level city in the northwest of Shandong province, China, bordering Hebei province to the north. Laoling has more than 640,000 inhabitants (1999) and is under the jurisdiction of Dezhou City.
Laoling 乐陵市 Loling | |
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 Laoling in Dezhou | |
  Laoling Location of the city center in Shandong | |
| Coordinates: 37°43′48″N 117°13′55″E / 37.730°N 117.232°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Shandong |
| Prefecture-level city | Dezhou |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1,173 km2 (453 sq mi) |
| Population (2019)[2] | |
| • Total | 676,000 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 253600 |
Administrative divisions
As 2012, this City is divided to 4 subdistricts, 8 towns and 4 townships.[4]
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Climate
| Climate data for Laoling (1991–2020 normals) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 3.1 (37.6) | 7.0 (44.6) | 13.7 (56.7) | 20.6 (69.1) | 26.4 (79.5) | 31.4 (88.5) | 32.0 (89.6) | 30.3 (86.5) | 26.9 (80.4) | 20.7 (69.3) | 11.8 (53.2) | 4.6 (40.3) | 19.0 (66.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −3.1 (26.4) | 0.5 (32.9) | 7.1 (44.8) | 14.1 (57.4) | 20.1 (68.2) | 25.1 (77.2) | 27.0 (80.6) | 25.5 (77.9) | 20.8 (69.4) | 14.1 (57.4) | 5.8 (42.4) | −1.0 (30.2) | 13.0 (55.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −7.7 (18.1) | −4.4 (24.1) | 1.6 (34.9) | 8.2 (46.8) | 14.0 (57.2) | 19.3 (66.7) | 22.7 (72.9) | 21.5 (70.7) | 15.7 (60.3) | 8.7 (47.7) | 1.1 (34.0) | −5.3 (22.5) | 8.0 (46.3) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 3.1 (0.12) | 8.2 (0.32) | 8.7 (0.34) | 25.8 (1.02) | 42.5 (1.67) | 82.1 (3.23) | 173.2 (6.82) | 142.5 (5.61) | 39.0 (1.54) | 28.0 (1.10) | 17.3 (0.68) | 3.8 (0.15) | 574.2 (22.6) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 1.7 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 7.9 | 11.3 | 9.8 | 5.8 | 5.0 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 63.5 |
| Average snowy days | 2.8 | 2.7 | 1.0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 1.9 | 9.6 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 61 | 57 | 53 | 58 | 64 | 64 | 77 | 83 | 76 | 69 | 67 | 65 | 66 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 161.3 | 166.9 | 217.7 | 237.8 | 268.1 | 242.4 | 203.9 | 207.6 | 207.7 | 199.7 | 165.5 | 155.3 | 2,433.9 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 53 | 54 | 58 | 60 | 61 | 55 | 46 | 50 | 56 | 58 | 55 | 52 | 55 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration[5][6] | |||||||||||||
Food
Chinese date from Laoling
HuangMianJi
Laoling is famous for Chinese date. Also Boiled Fried Chicken(HuangMianJi, 黄面鸡) is the local cuisine that often offers during the Spring Festival.