Lingqiu County, which belongs to Datong City, Shanxi Province, is located in the northeast of Shanxi Province and the southeast corner of Datong City. Its geographical coordinates are11353' ~11433' and 39 3 1' ~ 39 38' north latitude. Lingqiu has a temperate continental climate. As of 202 1, Lingqiu county has jurisdiction over 3 towns and 8 townships with a total area of 2,732 square kilometers.

According to the data of the seventh census, as of 0: 00 1 1 on June 2020, the permanent population of Lingqiu County was 2 1277 1. Lingqiu County is located at the junction of Wutai Mountain, Taihang Mountain and Hengshan Mountain. Due to the different stages of orogenic structure, the geology in the territory is very complicated.

There are outcrops in the territory from the oldest strata in Archean to the latest strata in Cenozoic Holocene. The main exposed strata are: Archean and Upper Proterozoic Sinian; Paleozoic Ordovician and CAMBRIAN; Mesozoic Jurassic and Cretaceous; The new world. The inner stratum of the county is south old and north new.

Brief introduction of Lingqiu county

Lingqiu County is a branch of Taihang Mountain in the east, a continuation of Wutai Mountain in the south and an extension of Hengshan Mountain in the north. The territory is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with more than 500 peaks, and more than 1300m peaks 100 peaks. Mountain area 1788. 15 square kilometers, accounting for 65.5% of the county's total area of 2,732 square kilometers. Known as "nine mountains and rivers and one field".