Luoxi Town | |
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罗溪镇 | |
![]() View of Luoxi Town | |
Coordinates: 31°54′15″N 119°48′55″E / 31.90417°N 119.81528°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Province | Jiangsu |
City | Changzhou |
District | Xinbei |
Elevation | 9 m (30 ft) |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 47,432 [1] |
Time zone | UTC+8 |
Geocode | 1548359 |
Luoxi Town ( Chinese: 罗溪镇) is a township-level administrative unit under the jurisdiction of Xinbei District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, the People's Republic of China. [2] It is located in the province of Jiangsu, in the eastern part of the country, about 96 kilometres (60 mi) east of the provincial capital, Nanjing. As of 2012, it had a recorded population of 47,432. [1] This population consists of 22,698 women and 24,734 men. Children under 15 made up 10.0%, adults 15-64 made up 78%, and seniors over 65 made up 10.0%. [1]
Luoxi is densely populated, with 1,135 inhabitants per square kilometer recorded in 2016. [3] The nearest larger community is Chunjiang , 17.9 kilometres (11.1 mi) east of Luoxi. The geography around Luoxi consists mostly of agricultural land. [4]
Luoxi has a humid subtropical climate ( Köppen: Cfa) with hot and wet summers and cold and humid winters. Average annual rainfall is 1,525 millimetres (60.0 in). The wettest month is July, with an average of 289 millimetres (11.4 in) of precipitation, and the driest is January, with 43 millimetres (1.7 in) of precipitation. [5]