Harbin

Harbin (Cheenese: 哈尔滨; pinyin: Hā'ěrbīn [xɑ́ɻpín]); Manchu leid: , Harbin; Roushie: Харбин́ Kharbin listen ), 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
Sub-provincial ceety
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
Harbin Location in Heilongjiang
Coordinates: 45°45′N 126°38′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

Relatit page: Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Cheenae

Twin touns an sister ceeties

Harbin is twinned wi:

Domestic

• Chengdu, Sichuan
• Dalian, Liaoning
• Guangzhou, Guangdong
• Hangzhou, Zhejiang
• Wenzhou, Zhejiang
• Xiamen, Fujian
• Xining, Qinghai
• Nanjing, Jiangsu

International

• Niigata, 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

1. "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.
2. "China Briefing Business Guide: Harbin". China-briefing.com. Archived frae the original on 3 Mey 2010. Retrieved 16 Mairch 2011.
3. "Harbin and Yakutsk will be sister cities". 1sn.ru. Retrieved 16 Mairch 2011.
4. 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.
5. Plumb, Tierney (23 Juin 2010). "Fairfax County teams up with Chinese city".