Gaozhou City is located in the southwest of Guangdong Province, in the middle of Maoming City, at the crossroads of western Guangdong and eastern Guangxi. The city covers a total area of 3,276 square kilometers and governs 23 towns and 5 streets. At the end of 20021,the registered population was 1869400, and the permanent population of the whole city was 1330500. Gaozhou Prefecture was established in the first year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, which was the first of the next four prefectures in Guangdong, and was withdrawn from the prefecture to stay in the county in the Republic of China.
1June, 993, Gaozhou City was built in the eighteenth year of Sui Dynasty. From the Tang Dynasty to the Republic of China, Gaozhou has always been the political, economic, cultural and military center of western Guangdong. Historically, Gaozhou has been known as one of the four major cultural and educational towns in Guangdong. Gaozhou is an important birthplace, prosperity and inheritance place of sorghum culture.
Climatic characteristics of Gaozhou city;
Gaozhou city is located in the transitional zone between tropical and subtropical zone, and belongs to the south subtropical monsoon climate, with sufficient sunshine and heat. The average annual sunshine duration is 1945.3 hours, and the total annual solar radiation is 109385.2 calories square centimeter. The annual average temperature is 22.8℃, the highest temperature is 37.6℃, and the lowest temperature is-65438 0.5℃.
5438+ 10, the average temperature in June 15. 1℃, the average temperature in July is 28.4℃, and the annual temperature difference is obvious, about 13.3℃. The annual accumulated temperature is about 8 176℃, and the frost-free period is 36 1 day. The average annual rainfall is1892.7mm. The rainfall varies greatly every year. There is a relatively dry and wet season, and April-September is the rainy season, dominated by the south wind; Dry season 10 to March of next year.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Gaozhou City