Harbin
| Harbin 哈尔滨 |
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| — Sub-provincial ceety — | |||
| 哈尔滨市 | |||
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| Eik-name(s): Ice Ceety, Oriental Paris, Oriental Moscow | |||
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  Harbin
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| Coordinates: 45°45′N 126°38′E / 45.75°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) | ||
| Aurie | |||
| - Sub-provincial ceety | 53,068 km2 (20,489.7 sq mi) | ||
| - Urban | 2,089 km2 (806.6 sq mi) | ||
| - Metro | 4,275 km2 (1,650.6 sq mi) | ||
| Hicht | 150 m (488 ft) | ||
| Indwallers | |||
| - Sub-provincial ceety | 10,635,971 | ||
| - Densitie | 200.4/km2 (519.1/sq mi) | ||
| - Urban | 4,517,549 | ||
| - Urban densitie |
2,162.5/km2 (5,601/sq mi) | ||
| - Metro | 5,282,083 | ||
| - Metro densitie |
1,235.6/km2 (3,200.1/sq mi) | ||
| Time zone | Cheenae Staundart Time (UTC+8) | ||
| Postal code | 150000 | ||
| Aurie code(s) | 451 | ||
| License plate prefixes | 黑A | ||
| GDP (2010) | CNY 3665.9 billion | ||
| - per capita | CNY 36,961 | ||
| Ceety flouers | Syringa | ||
| Wabsteid | www.harbin.gov.cn | ||
Harbin ( [xɑ́ɻpín]); Manchu leid: 15px, 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 city's municipal aurie haes 5,878,939 inhabitants, while the total population o the sub-provincial ceety is 10,635,971.[1] Harbin serves as a key poleetical, economic, scientific, cultural an communications hub in Northeast Cheenae.
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 well kent for its bonnie ice sculpturs in winter an its Roushie legacy an still plays an important pairt in Sino-Roushie trade the day. In the 1920s, the ceety wis considered Cheenae's fashion caipital as new designs frae Paris an Moscow reached there first afore arrivin in Shanghai.[2]
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Internaitional relations [edit]
Twin touns an sister ceeties [edit]
Harbin is twinned wi:
Domestic [edit]
- Chengdu, Sichuan
- Dalian, Liaoning
- Guangzhou, Guangdong
- Hangzhou, Zhejiang
- Wenzhou, Zhejiang
- Xiamen, Fujian
- Xining, Qinghai
- Nanjing, Jiangsu
International [edit]
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 [edit]
- ↑ 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）
- ↑ China Briefing Business Guide: Harbin. China-briefing.com. Retrieved on 16 Mairch 2011. .
- ↑ Harbin and Yakutsk will be sister cities. 1sn.ru. Retrieved on 16 Mairch 2011. .
- ↑ Published on Mon May 18 10:47:42 BST 2009. China opens a window on Sunderland – Local. Sunderland Echo. Retrieved on 16 Mairch 2011. .
- ↑ Plumb, Tierney. "Fairfax County teams up with Chinese city", 2010-06-23.
