Heilongjiang Province 
 Heilongjiang Province
 
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Heilongjiang Province

  Population: 33.3 million
Urban population: 20.4 million
Area: 460,000 square kilometers
Capital: Haerbin
Neighboring country: Russia

Nationalities:
Han, Manchu, Korean, Mongolian, Hui, Daur, Oroqen, Hezhe, Kergez, and Ewenki

Climatic features:
spans the cold-temperate/semi-humid and temperate/humid zones; short summers and long winters; no summer in the northwest; subject to spring droughts, summer flooding, and autumn frost.

Average temperature:
minus 32 - minus 17 centigrade degree in January, 16 - 23 centigrade degree in July; coldest in the northwest


Annual average rainfall:
250 - 700 mm; highest precipitation occurs on the southern side of the Lesser Hinggan Range and the Zhangguangcai Mountains; 60 percent of the rain falls from June to August

Physical features:
mountainous in the north and south; plains in the east and west; intermittent volcanic eruptions in some sections

Mountains:
Emur, Yilehuli, and Lesser Hinggan Mountains in the north; in the south, part of the Changbai Mountains

Plains: the Sanjiang Plain in the east consists of alluvial deposits from the Heilong, Songhua, and Wusuli Rivers; the Songnen Plain, named after the Nenjiang and Songhua Rivers, is connected to the Sanjiang Plain through the Songhua River Valley; a small plain lies north of Xingkai Lake in the east.

Rivers: Heilong River along the northern border; Nenjiang and Songhua Rivers in the middle; Wusuli River along the eastern border

Products:
corn, sorghum, millet, wheat, rice, potatoes, soybeans, sugar beet, sesame, sunflower seeds; flax, tussah; timber; fur animals including squirrel, alpine weasel, sable, and otter; ginseng, antlers, tiger bone, musk, and other medicinal materials; edible fungus, mushrooms, pine nuts; chum salmon, sturgeon, huso sturgeon

Administrative divisions:
19 cities, 59 counties, and 1 autonomous county

Neighboring areas:
Jilin Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region

Major cities:
Harbin, Qiqihaer, Mudanjiang, Jiamusi, Jixi, Hegang, Shuangyashan, Daqing, Heihe

Tourist attractions:
ice festival and Sun Island, Harbin; Jingpo Lake near Mudanjiang

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