# Jiexi County

Jiexi County (Chinese: 揭西; pinyin: Jiēxī) is a county of eastern Guangdong province, China. It is under the administration of Jieyang city with a jurisdiction area of 1,279 km$^2$ (494 sq mi) and a total population of 674,829 according to the 2020 census. Amongst them, 209,233 are downtown residents.
Immigrants from Jiexi form a large overseas Chinese population who speak the Hepo dialect of Hakka (70%), mainly in Sarawak, Johor and Negeri Sembilan (Malaysia), and Bangka Belitung, Sumatra (Indonesia). Other people from Jiexi speak the Chaoshan Min (30%). In the late 18th and early 19th century, settlers from Jiexi county formed the Lintian kongsi republic, an autonomous polity named after a temple in Jiexi dedicated to the Lords of the Three Mountains in Jieyang (Chinese: 三山国王祖庙 aka 揭阳霖田祖庙).
Jiexi is home to the Huangmanzhai waterfalls. There are ambitions to make Jiexi County a more attractive tourist destination following investment in 2010.
The Lords of the Three Mountains, also Kings of the Three Mountains) are a triad Taoist deities worshiped in Southern China (mainly Teochew people) and the part of Hakka people in Taiwan. The Three Mountains refer to three mountains in Jiexi County:
* Jin Mountain (巾山) - protected by the Great Lord
* Ming Mountain (明山) - protected by the Second Lord
* Du Mountain (獨山) - protected by the Third Lord

## Geography

From both Guangzhou and Hong Kong the county is about 400 kilometres (250 mi) away.

## Climate

Climate data for Jiexi, elevation 81 m (266 ft), (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1981–2010) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 29.8 (85.6) | 32.2 (90.0) | 33.3 (91.9) | 36.4 (97.5) | 37.7 (99.9) | 38.2 (100.8) | 39.2 (102.6) | 38.3 (100.9) | 37.6 (99.7) | 36.0 (96.8) | 35.0 (95.0) | 30.6 (87.1) | 39.2 (102.6) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 19.4 (66.9) | 20.3 (68.5) | 22.6 (72.7) | 26.5 (79.7) | 29.6 (85.3) | 31.6 (88.9) | 33.3 (91.9) | 33.0 (91.4) | 31.9 (89.4) | 29.3 (84.7) | 25.6 (78.1) | 21.1 (70.0) | 27.0 (80.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 13.9 (57.0) | 15.2 (59.4) | 17.8 (64.0) | 21.8 (71.2) | 25.1 (77.2) | 27.3 (81.1) | 28.4 (83.1) | 28.0 (82.4) | 27.0 (80.6) | 24.1 (75.4) | 20.2 (68.4) | 15.6 (60.1) | 22.0 (71.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 10.3 (50.5) | 11.8 (53.2) | 14.5 (58.1) | 18.5 (65.3) | 22.0 (71.6) | 24.5 (76.1) | 25.2 (77.4) | 25.0 (77.0) | 23.8 (74.8) | 20.4 (68.7) | 16.3 (61.3) | 11.8 (53.2) | 18.7 (65.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 0.6 (33.1) | 3.0 (37.4) | 3.7 (38.7) | 9.4 (48.9) | 15.7 (60.3) | 19.4 (66.9) | 21.0 (69.8) | 22.4 (72.3) | 17.8 (64.0) | 12.8 (55.0) | 4.4 (39.9) | −0.5 (31.1) | −0.5 (31.1) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 44.3 (1.74) | 57.3 (2.26) | 99.7 (3.93) | 162.4 (6.39) | 236.2 (9.30) | 384.0 (15.12) | 336.7 (13.26) | 370.8 (14.60) | 214.4 (8.44) | 53.5 (2.11) | 39.2 (1.54) | 38.1 (1.50) | 2,036.6 (80.19) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 7.2 | 10.3 | 13.9 | 14.7 | 17.7 | 20.6 | 17.8 | 19.1 | 12.7 | 6.2 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 151.7 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 73 | 76 | 79 | 80 | 81 | 84 | 81 | 82 | 79 | 73 | 73 | 70 | 78 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 143.0 | 105.4 | 97.1 | 104.9 | 128.3 | 148.8 | 201.5 | 184.9 | 178.6 | 185.9 | 170.1 | 158.8 | 1,807.3 |
| Percent possible sunshine | 42 | 33 | 26 | 27 | 31 | 37 | 49 | 47 | 49 | 52 | 52 | 48 | 41 |
| Source: China Meteorological Administration ||||||||||||||