Suifenhe
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Suifenhe () is a county-level city in southeastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, located where the former Chinese Eastern Railway crosses the border with Russia's town of Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai. In January 2014, Suifenhe became the only Chinese city in which trading with Russian Ruble is officially allowed. The city shares its name with the Suifen River, and is under the administration of Mudanjiang Prefecture-level City.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Suifenhe is referenced by 311 other articles, and connects out to province of China, China–Russia border and Russia.
The entry is geolocated on the map in adm3rd_region, across 2 mapped points.
It is catalogued under topics including China–Russia border crossings, Cities in Heilongjiang and Mudanjiang.
Its subject is documented across 25 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Suifenhe
- Settlement.native_name
- 绥芬河市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh-Hans
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level & Sub-prefectural city
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- Clockwise from top: Suifenhe Railway Station, Da Guangming Temple, "National Gate" on the China–Russia border, downtown Suifenhe, Central Square
- Settlement.image_map
- ChinaMudanjiangSuifenhe.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Suifenhe in Mudanjiang
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- Heilongjiang
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- right
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- Location in Heilongjiang
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Heilongjiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Mudanjiang
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Township-level divisions
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- 2 towns
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- border city
- Official name
- 绥芬河市
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Dongning
- Population
- 114564
- Area
- 422.36
- Elevation
- 464
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.suifenhe.gov.cn
- Image
- Downtown Suifenhe.jpg
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- Commons category
- Suifenhe
- postal code
- 157300
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography and climate
- Administrative divisions
- Transport
- Road
- Road and rail border crossing
- Airport
- References
Suifenhe () is a county-level city in southeastern Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, located where the former Chinese Eastern Railway crosses the border with Russia's town of Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai. In January 2014, Suifenhe became the only Chinese city in which trading with Russian Ruble is officially allowed. The city shares its name with the Suifen River, and is under the administration of Mudanjiang Prefecture-level City.
Suifenhe and the surrounding border areas were scenes of vicious combat when the Soviet Union invaded Japanese-occupied Manchuria in August 1945.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Suifenhe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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