Heilongjiang: Province of China
Heilongjiang is the northeastern-most province in China.
It is considered to part of the region known as Manchuria. It is bordered by Russia on the north and east. To the south is Jilin province, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region lies to the west.
.svg)
The capital and largest city is Harbin. There had been a considerable foreign population in the region, particularly in Harbin, first by the Russians in the late 19th century, and then by the Japanese in the 20th century.
The land is largely of plains and rolling hills, with relatively few low mountainous areas. The climate is fairly dry with quite cold winters. There are some famous winter "ice festivals" with elaborate snow and ice sculptures.
Political divisions
Heilongjiang Province is divided into 12 municipalities and 1 prefecture.
- Harbin Municipality
- Daqing Municipality
- Hegang Municipality
- Heihe Municipality
- Jiamusi Municipality
- Jixi Municipality
- Mudanjiang Municipality
- Qiqihar Municipality
- Qitaihe Municipality
- Shuangyashan Municipality
- Suihua Municipality
- Yichun Municipality
- Daxing'anling Prefecture
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Heilongjiang, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Simple English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.