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|name                   = Harbin
|official_name          = 哈尔滨市
|native_name            = 哈尔滨
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|nickname               = Ice Ceety, Oriental Paris, Oriental Moscow
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|image_caption          = Frae top: [[Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival|Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival]], Hongbo Square an surroondin, Harbin Xinhua Bookstore, Saunt Sofia Kirk, Harbin Mosque, an the [[Ji Le Temple]]
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|subdivision_name       = [[Fowkrepublic o Cheenae]]
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|leader_title           = secretary o a municipal committee o the CPC
|leader_name            = [[Gai Ruyin]] 盖如垠 (syne August, 2009)
|leader_title1          = Mayor
|leader_name1           = [[Song Xibin]] 宋希斌 (syne January, 2012)
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|area_urban_km2           = 2089
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|elevation_ft           =488
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|postal_code            =150000
|area_code              =[[Telephone numbers in Cheenae|451]]
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|blank1_name            =[[Gross domestic product|GDP]] (2010)
|blank1_info            =[[Renminbi|CNY]] 3665.9 billion <!-- ([[List of China administrative regions by gross domestic product|15th]]) -->
|blank2_name            =&nbsp;- per capita
|blank2_info            =[[Renminbi|CNY]] 36,961 <!-- ([[List of China administrative regions by GDP per capita|2nd]]) -->
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|website                = [http://www.harbin.gov.cn/ www.harbin.gov.cn]
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'''Harbin''' ({{zh|s=哈尔滨 |p=Hā'ěrbīn}} {{IPA-cmn|xɑ́ɻpín|}}); [[Manchu leid]]: [[File:Harbin-manchu.png|15px]]<!--{{Lang|mnc|ᡥᠠᡵᠪᡳᠨ}}-->, ''Harbin''; {{lang-ru|Харбин}}́ ''Kharbin'' {{Audio|Ru-Харбин.oga|listen}}), is the [[Caipital ceety|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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.dayoo.com/roll/201105/13/10000307_104198994.htm |title=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） |access-date=2012-05-08 |archive-date=2016-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605085237/http://www.dayoo.com/roll/201105/13/10000307_104198994.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Harbin serves as a key poleetical, economic, scienteefic, cultural an communications hub in Northeast Cheenae.

Harbin is oreeginally a [[Manchu leid|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.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.china-briefing.com/article/northeast-china:-harbin-551.html |title=China Briefing Business Guide: Harbin |publisher=China-briefing.com |date= |accessdate=2011-03-16 |archive-date=2010-05-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503121439/http://www.china-briefing.com/article/northeast-china%3A-harbin-551.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Internaitional relations ==
{{See an aw|Leet o twin touns an sister ceeties in Cheenae}}

=== Twin touns an sister ceeties ===
Harbin is [[twin touns an sister ceeties|twinned]] wi:

=== Domestic ===
*[[Chengdu]], [[Sichuan]]
*[[Dalian]], [[Liaoning]]
*[[Guangzhou]], [[Guangdong]]
*[[Hangzhou]], [[Zhejiang]]
*[[Wenzhou]], [[Zhejiang]]
*[[Xiamen]], [[Fujian]]
*[[Xining]], [[Qinghai]]
*[[Nanjing]], [[Jiangsu]]

=== International ===
*{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Niigata, Niigata|Niigata]], Japan, syne 1979
*{{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Aarhus]], Denmark, syne 1984
*{{flagicon|Canada}} [[Edmonton]], Canadae, syne 1985
*{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Sverdlovsk Oblast]], Roushie, syne 1991
*{{flagicon|United States}} [[Minneapolis]], Unitit States, syne 1992
*{{flagicon|United States}} [[Anchorage]], Unitit States
*{{flagicon|South Africa}} [[Ekhuruleni]], Sooth Africae
*{{flagicon|Poland}} [[Warsaw]], Poland, syne 1993
*{{flagicon|Latvia}} [[Daugavpils]], Latvie
*{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Khabarovsk]], Roushie
*{{flagicon|Romania}} [[Ploieşti]], Romanie
*{{flagicon|Japan}} [[Asahikawa, Hokkaidō|Asahikawa]], Japan
*{{flagicon|South Korea}} [[Bucheon]], Sooth Korea
*{{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Salvador, Brazil]]
*{{flagicon|Israel}} [[Giv'atayim]], Israel
*{{flagicon|Australia}} [[Griffith, New Sooth Wales]], Australie
*{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Krasnodar]], Roushie
*{{flagicon|Philippines}} [[Cagayan de Oro]], Philippines, syne 2007
*{{flagicon|Finland}} [[Rovaniemi]], Finland
*{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Magdeburg]], Germany, syne 2008
*{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Krasnoyarsk]], Roushie, syne 2008
*{{flagicon|Austria}} [[Wiener Neustadt]], Austrick
*{{flagicon|Russia}} [[Yakutsk]], Roushie, syne 2008<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1sn.ru/3134.html |title=Harbin and Yakutsk will be sister cities |publisher=1sn.ru |date= |accessdate=2011-03-16}}</ref>
*{{flagicon|UK}} [[Sunderland]], Unitit Kinrick (2009)<ref>{{cite web |author=Published on Mon May 18 10:47:42 BST 2009 |url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/China-opens-a-window-on.5276489.jp |title=China opens a window on Sunderland&nbsp;– Local |publisher=Sunderland Echo |date= |accessdate=2011-03-16 |archive-date=2009-05-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090521180257/http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/China-opens-a-window-on.5276489.jp |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*{{flagicon|United States}} [[Fairfax Coonty, Virginie]], Unitit States (2010)<ref>{{cite news
  | url=http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/2010/06/fairfax_county_teams_up_with_china_city.html
  | first=Tierney | last=Plumb
  | title=Fairfax County teams up with Chinese city
  | date=2010-06-23}}</ref>

== References ==
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[[Category:Provincial caipitals in Cheenae]]