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Also known as Hegang City

Hegang (, also known as Heli and Xingshan) is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province of China, situated in the southeastern section of the Lesser Khingan Range, facing Jiamusi across the Songhua River to the south and Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast across the Amur River to the north. Hegang is one of the principal coal-producing cities in China. Hegang covers an administrative area of and according to the 2020 Chinese census, has a population of 891,271 inhabitants, of whom 545,404 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of 6 urban districts.By the end of 2024, the total regist

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Hegang
Settlement.native_name
鹤岗市
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zh-Hans
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Prefecture-level city
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鹤岗市.jpg
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Hegang city montage
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Location of Hegang Prefecture within Heilongjiang (China).png
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Location of Hegang City (yellow) in Heilongjiang (light grey)
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Heilongjiang
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Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang
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right
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240
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Country
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People's Republic of China
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Province
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Heilongjiang
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County-level divisions
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8

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Official name
ᡥᡝᡤᠠᠩ
Population
891271
Area
14665.01
Elevation
280
Official website
www.hegang.gov.cn
Image
鹤岗市.jpg
Dialing code
468 (в уездах Лобэй и Суйбинь)
Licence plate code
黑H
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Commons category
Hegang
postal code
154100
inception
1906-00-00
native label
鹤岗
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Hegang (, also known as Heli and Xingshan) is a prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang province of China, situated in the southeastern section of the Lesser Khingan Range, facing Jiamusi across the Songhua River to the south and Russia's Jewish Autonomous Oblast across the Amur River to the north. Hegang is one of the principal coal-producing cities in China. Hegang covers an administrative area of and according to the 2020 Chinese census, has a population of 891,271 inhabitants, of whom 545,404 lived in the built-up (or metro) area made of 6 urban districts.By the end of 2024, the total registered population of the city will be 935,000, including 756,000 in urban areas.

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