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Heilongjiang Province is in the far northeast of . The province is famous for its fierce winters, snow and ice festivals and Russian influence.
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is the capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeast . The city is notable for its influence and the yearly International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, giving it the unofficial title Ice City.

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is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, while the total population of the prefecture-level city was shrinking to 4,067,489 as of the 2020 census.

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is a prefecture-level city of northern Heilongjiang province, China, located on the Russian border, on the south bank of the Amur River, across the river from .

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, alternately romanized as Mutankiang, is a prefecture-level city in the southeast part of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China.

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is a prefecture-level city in the west of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. The name literally means "Great Celebration" and refers to the tenth anniversary of the PRC.

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is a prefecture-level city in eastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China. Located along the middle and lower reaches of the Songhua River, it faces 's across the Ussuri River and the Heilongjiang.

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is a city in southeastern Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China. At the 2020 census, 1,502,060 people resided within its administrative area of 22,488.47 square kilometres and 560,118 in its built-up area made up of 3 out of 6 urban districts.By the end of 2024, the total registered population of the city is 1,593,200, of which the urban population is 1,006 million.

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is the sixth largest city in Heilongjiang province, Dongbei, . As the city sits in a vast forest inside the Xiaoxing'anling hills, it has the highest forest coverage rate in China, with the largest and best protected Korean pine forest in Asia.

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is a city in Heilongjiang Province. It is on the border with Russia and is China's gateway to .

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, in the Daxing'anling region of Heilongjiang Province, is the northernmost county-level city in China and is often referred to as the "Arctic of China".

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is in Heilongjiang province.
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Heilongjiang

Latitude of center
48° north
Longitude of center
128° east
Population
31,900,000
Elevation
342 metres (1,122 feet)
Abbreviation
“黑”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244080473
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
2036965
Wiki­data ID
Q19206
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zhuang—“Heilongjiang” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Heilongjiang”
  • Afrikaans: “Heilongjiang”
  • Arabic: “هيلونغجيانغ”
  • Armenian: “Հեյլունցզյան”
  • Asturian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Azerbaijani: “Heyluntszyan”
  • Balinese: “Heilongjiang”
  • Basque: “Heilongjiang”
  • Belarusian: “Правінцыя Хэйлунцзян”
  • Belarusian: “Хэйлунцзян”
  • Bengali: “হেইলুংচিয়াং”
  • Breton: “Heilongjiang”
  • Bulgarian: “Хъйлундзян”
  • Catalan: “Heilongjiang”
  • Cebuano: “Heilongjiang Sheng”
  • Central Kurdish: “ھێیلۆنگجیانگ”
  • Chechen: “Хэйлунцзян”
  • Chinese: “Heilongjiang Sheng”
  • Chinese: “Hek-liông-kang-séng”
  • Chinese: “黑”
  • Chinese: “黑龍江”
  • Chinese: “黑龍江省”
  • Chinese: “黑龙江”
  • Chinese: “黑龙江省”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Heilongjiang”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Heyluñcâñ”
  • Croatian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Czech: “Chej-lung-ťiang”
  • Danish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Dutch: “Heilongjiang”
  • Esperanto: “Hejlongĝjango”
  • Estonian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Finnish: “Heilongjiang”
  • French: “Heilongjiang”
  • French: “Hēilóngjiāng”
  • French: “Province de Heilongjiang”
  • Galician: “Heilongjiang”
  • Gan Chinese: “黑龍江”
  • Gan Chinese: “黑龙江省”
  • Georgian: “ხეილუნძიანი”
  • German: “CN-23”
  • German: “Heilongjiang”
  • Greek: “Χεϊλονγκτσιάνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “હેયલોંગજિયાંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Het-liùng-kông”
  • Hebrew: “חיילונגג’יאנג”
  • Hindi: “हेइलोंगजियांग”
  • Hungarian: “Hejlungcsiang”
  • Icelandic: “Heilongjiang”
  • Ido: “Provinco Heilongjiang”
  • Indonesian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Interlingua: “Heilongjiang”
  • Irish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Italian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Japanese: “黒竜江省 (中華人民共和国)”
  • Japanese: “黒竜江省”
  • Japanese: “黒龍江省”
  • Kalmyk: “Хәлүнҗән”
  • Kannada: “ಹೀಲೋಂಗ್ಜಿಯಾಂಗ್”
  • Khmer: “ខេត្តហេយឡុងជៀង”
  • Kirghiz: “Хэйлунцзян”
  • Kongo: “Heilongjiang”
  • Korean: “헤이룽장 성”
  • Korean: “헤이룽장성”
  • Korean: “흑룡강성”
  • Kurdish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Latin: “Heilongjiang”
  • Latvian: “Heilundzjana”
  • Literary Chinese: “黑”
  • Literary Chinese: “黑省”
  • Literary Chinese: “黑龍江”
  • Literary Chinese: “黑龍江省”
  • Lithuanian: “Heilongdziangas”
  • Lombard: “Heilongjiang”
  • Macedonian: “Хејлунгѓанг”
  • Malagasy: “Heilongjiang”
  • Malay: “Heilongjiang”
  • Manchu: “ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡠᠯᠠ ᡤᠣᠯᠣ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯍꯩꯂꯣꯡꯖ꯭ꯌꯥꯡ”
  • Manx: “Heilongjiang”
  • Marathi: “हैलोंगच्यांग”
  • Mazanderani: “هیلونگ‌جیانگ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Háik-lṳ̀ng-gĕ̤ng-sēng”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Háik-lṳ̀ng-gĕ̤ng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hek-lêng-kang-séng”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰეილუნძიანი”
  • Mongolian: “Хармөрөн муж”
  • Mongolian: “Хармөрөн”
  • Mongolian: “ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠮᠦ᠌ᠷᠡᠨ ᠮᠤᠵᠢ”
  • Nepali: “हेइलोङजियाङ”
  • Newari: “हेइलोङजियाङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Heilongjiang”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Heilongjiang”
  • Norwegian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Heilongjiang”
  • Ossetian: “Хэйлунцзян”
  • Pampanga: “Heilongjiang”
  • Persian: “هئی‌لونگ‌جیانگ”
  • Persian: “هیلونگ‌جیانگ”
  • Polish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Portuguese: “Heilongjiang”
  • Portuguese: “Heilonquião”
  • Quechua: “Heilongjiang pruwinsya”
  • Romanian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хара Мүрэн можо”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хара-Мүрэн можо”
  • Russian: “Хэйлунцзян”
  • Scots: “Heilongjiang”
  • Serbian: “Хејлунгђанг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Sindhi: “ھيلانگجيئينگ صوبو”
  • Sinhala: “හෙලිඔන්ග්ජියාන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Chej-lung-ťiang”
  • Slovenian: “CN-23”
  • Slovenian: “Heilongdžjang”
  • Slovenian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Slovenian: “L Heilongdžang”
  • Spanish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Sundanese: “Propinsi Heilongjiang”
  • Swahili: “Heilongjiang”
  • Swedish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Tagalog: “Heilongjiang”
  • Tajik: “Хэйлунҷиан”
  • Tamil: “கெய்லோங்சியாங்”
  • Tamil: “ஹெயிலோங்கிஜிங்”
  • Tatar: “Хейлуңҗаң”
  • Telugu: “హీలాంగ్‌జియాంగ్”
  • Thai: “มณฑลเฮย์หลงเจียง”
  • Tibetan: “ཧའེ་ལུང་ཅང་ཞིང་ཆེན།”
  • Turkish: “Heilongjiang”
  • Uighur: “خېيلوڭجياڭ ئۆلكىسى”
  • Ukrainian: “Хейлунцзян”
  • Urdu: “ہیلونگجیانگ”
  • Uzbek: “Xeylunszyan”
  • Venetian: “Heilongjiang”
  • Vietnamese: “Hắc Long Giang”
  • Vietnamese: “tỉnh Hắc Long Giang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Heilongjiang”
  • Welsh: “Heilongjiang”
  • Western Armenian: “Հէյլօնկճիանկ”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہیلونگچانگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑省”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑龙江”
  • Wu Chinese: “黑龙江省”
  • Yakut: “Хэйлунцзян”
  • Yue Chinese: “黑”
  • Yue Chinese: “黑省”
  • Yue Chinese: “黑龍江”
  • Yue Chinese: “黑龍江省”
  • Zhuang: “Hwzlungzgyangh”
  • “ma Elunsan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Heilongjiang”. Photo: Tracy Hunter, CC BY 2.0.