Harbin
Harbin (Cheenese: 哈尔滨; pinyin: Hā'ěrbīn [xɑ́ɻpín]); Manchu leid: , Harbin; Roushie: Харбин́ Kharbin
listen (help·info)), is the caipital an lairgest ceety o Heilongjiang Province in Northeast Cheenae, as well as the tent maist populatit ceety in the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. Accordin tae the 2010 Cheenae census data, the ceety's municipal aurie haes 5,878,939 indwallers, while the tot population o the sub-provincial ceety is 10,635,971.[1] Harbin serves as a key poleetical, economic, scienteefic, cultural an communications hub in Northeast Cheenae.
Harbin 哈尔滨 | |
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哈尔滨市 | |
Frae top: Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Hongbo Square an surroondin, Harbin Xinhua Bookstore, Saunt Sofia Kirk, Harbin Mosque, an the Ji Le Temple | |
Eik-name(s): Ice Ceety, Oriental Paris, Oriental Moscow | |
Harbin (red) in Heilongjiang province (orange) an Cheenae | |
Coordinates: 45°45′N 126°38′E / 45.750°N 126.633°ECoordinates: 45°45′N 126°38′E / 45.750°N 126.633°E | |
Kintra | Fowkrepublic o Cheenae |
Province | Heilongjiang |
Coonty-level diveesions | 19 |
Govrenment | |
• secretary o a municipal committee o the CPC | Gai Ruyin 盖如垠 (syne August, 2009) |
• Mayor | Song Xibin 宋希斌 (syne January, 2012) |
Area | |
• Sub-provincial ceety | 53068 km2 (20,490 sq mi) |
• Urban | 2089 km2 (807 sq mi) |
• Metro | 4275 km2 (1,651 sq mi) |
Elevation | 150 m (488 ft) |
Population | |
• Sub-provincial ceety | 10,635,971 |
• Density | 200/km2 (520/sq mi) |
• Urban | 4,517,549 |
• Urban density | 2,200/km2 (5,600/sq mi) |
• Metro | 5,282,083 |
• Metro density | 1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+8 (Cheenae Staundart Time) |
Postal code | 150000 |
Area code(s) | 451 |
License plate prefixes | 黑A |
GDP (2010) | CNY 3665.9 billion |
- per capita | CNY 36,961 |
Ceety flouers | Syringa |
Website | www.harbin.gov.cn |
Harbin is oreeginally a Manchu wird meanin "a place for dryin fishin nets." It is kent for its bitterly cauld winters an is aften cried the "Ice Ceety." Lyin on the soothren bank o the Songhua River, Harbin is weel kent for its bonnie ice sculpturs in winter an its Roushie legacy an still plays an important pairt in Sino-Roushie tred the day. In the 1920s, the ceety wis considered Cheenae's fashion caipital as new designs frae Paris an Moscow reached thare first afore arrivin in Shanghai.[2]
Internaitional relations
eeditTwin touns an sister ceeties
eeditHarbin is twinned wi:
Domestic
eedit- Chengdu, Sichuan
- Dalian, Liaoning
- Guangzhou, Guangdong
- Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Wenzhou, Zhejiang
- Xiamen, Fujian
- Xining, Qinghai
- Nanjing, Jiangsu
International
eeditNiigata, Japan, syne 1979
Aarhus, Denmark, syne 1984
Edmonton, Canadae, syne 1985
Sverdlovsk Oblast, Roushie, syne 1991
Minneapolis, Unitit States, syne 1992
Anchorage, Unitit States
Ekhuruleni, Sooth Africae
Warsaw, Poland, syne 1993
Daugavpils, Latvie
Khabarovsk, Roushie
Ploieşti, Romanie
Asahikawa, Japan
Bucheon, Sooth Korea
Salvador, Brazil
Giv'atayim, Israel
Griffith, New Sooth Wales, Australie
Krasnodar, Roushie
Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, syne 2007
Rovaniemi, Finland
Magdeburg, Germany, syne 2008
Krasnoyarsk, Roushie, syne 2008
Wiener Neustadt, Austrick
Yakutsk, Roushie, syne 2008[3]
Sunderland, Unitit Kinrick (2009)[4]
Fairfax Coonty, Virginie, Unitit States (2010)[5]
References
eedit- ↑ "2010年哈尔滨市第六次全国人口普查主要数据公报(Sixth National Population Census of the People's Republic of China)". Archived frae the original on 5 Juin 2016. Retrieved 8 Mey 2012.
- ↑ "China Briefing Business Guide: Harbin". China-briefing.com. Archived frae the original on 3 Mey 2010. Retrieved 16 Mairch 2011.
- ↑ "Harbin and Yakutsk will be sister cities". 1sn.ru. Retrieved 16 Mairch 2011.
- ↑ Published on Mon May 18 10:47:42 BST 2009. "China opens a window on Sunderland – Local". Sunderland Echo. Archived frae the original on 21 Mey 2009. Retrieved 16 Mairch 2011.
- ↑ Plumb, Tierney (23 Juin 2010). "Fairfax County teams up with Chinese city".