Qiqihar
齐齐哈尔市 Ch'i-ch'i-ha-erh, Tsitsihar | |
---|---|
Nickname: The Crane City (鹤城) | |
Coordinates (Qiqihar municipal government): 47°21′18″N 123°55′06″E / 47.3549°N 123.9182°E | |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Province | Heilongjiang |
County-level divisions | 16 |
towns and townships | 156 |
villages | 1361 |
Established | 1125 |
Municipal seat | Jianhua District |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture-level city |
• CPC Qiqihar Secretary | Sun Shen (孙珅) |
• Mayor | Li Yugang (李玉刚) |
Area | |
• Prefecture-level city | 42,205.82 km2 (16,295.76 sq mi) |
• Urban | 4,039.3 km2 (1,559.6 sq mi) |
• Metro | 970.3 km2 (374.6 sq mi) |
Elevation | 147 m (482 ft) |
Population (2020 census)[1] | |
• Prefecture-level city | 4,067,489 |
• Density | 96/km2 (250/sq mi) |
• Urban | 1,406,987 |
• Urban density | 350/km2 (900/sq mi) |
• Metro | 959,787 |
• Metro density | 990/km2 (2,600/sq mi) |
GDP | |
• Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 127 billion US$ 20.4 billion |
• Per capita | CN¥ 23,041 US$ 3,699 |
Time zone | UTC+08:00 (China Standard) |
Postal code | 161000 |
Area code | 0452 |
ISO 3166 code | CN-HL-02 |
License Plate | 黑B |
Administrative division code | 230200 |
Climate | Dwa |
Website | [1] |
Qiqihar | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chinese name | |||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 齐齐哈尔 | ||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 齊齊哈爾 | ||||||||
Postal | Tsitsihar | ||||||||
| |||||||||
Manchu name | |||||||||
Manchu script | ᠴᡳᠴᡳᡤᠠᡵ | ||||||||
Romanization | Cicigar |
Qiqihar[a] is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) 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 (5,367,003 as of 2010).[1] These are mainly Han Chinese, though the city is also home to thirty-four minorities including Manchus, Daur, and Mongols.[2]
Close to Qiqihar are numerous wetlands and the Zhalong Nature Reserve, famous in China for being home to numerous red-crowned cranes.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
Cite error: There are <ref group=lower-alpha>
tags or {{efn}}
templates on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
template or {{notelist}}
template (see the help page).