Lingshui

Location Lingshuis in Hainan

The Lingshui Autonomous County of Li ( 陵水黎族自治县 , Língshuǐ Lízú Zìzhìxiàn ) is an autonomous county in the south of the Chinese province of Hainan, directly subordinate to the provincial government . Lingshui has an area of 1128 km² and around 364,600 inhabitants (end of 2009). Of these, around 200,000 (55%) are members of the Li nationality and a further 800 of the Miao nationality . The Han Chinese population of Lingshuis is composed of three groups, the Hoklo (闽南人) with 92% of the Han, the Tanka (疍家人) who immigrated from the province of Fujian and the Hakka (客家人) with a total of 8% of the Han.

Lingshui is home to an important air force base of the People's Liberation Army and a nature reserve for rhesus monkeys , the Nanwan Monkey Island, in the large municipality of Xincun .

Administrative structure

At the community level, Lingshui is composed of nine large communities and two communities . These are:

Greater community Yelin (椰林镇), seat of the district government;

Greater community Benhao (本号镇);

Greater community Guangpo (光坡镇);

Greater community Li'an (黎安镇);

Greater community Longguang (隆广镇);

Sancai Municipality (三才镇);

Greater community Wenluo (文罗镇);

Greater community Xincun (新村镇);

Greater community Yingzhou (英州镇);

Community Timeng (提蒙乡);

Community Qunying (群英乡);

In addition, there are two state farms (Lingmen 岭门农场 and Nanping 南平农场) and the state forest enterprise Diaoluo Shan (国营吊罗山林业公司) in the administrative area of the county.

Web links

County government website - Chinese
Lingshui in the administrative division network of China - Chinese

18.5053 110.038Coordinates: 18 ° 30 ' N , 110 ° 2' E