# Harbin

| Harbin 哈尔滨 |
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| Sub-provincial ceety |
| 哈尔滨市 |
| Frae top: Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Hongbo Square an surroondin, Harbin Xinhua Bookstore, Saunt Sofia Kirk, Harbin Mosque, an the Ji Le Temple |
| Eik-name(s): Ice Ceety, Oriental Paris, Oriental Moscow |
| Harbin (red) in Heilongjiang province (orange) an Cheenae |
| HarbinLocation in Heilongjiang |
| Coordinates: ﻿ / ﻿ |
| Kintra | Fowkrepublic o Cheenae |
| Province | Heilongjiang |
| Coonty-level diveesions | 19 |
| Govrenment |
|  • secretary o a municipal committee o the CPC | Gai Ruyin 盖如垠 (syne August, 2009) |
|  • Mayor | Song Xibin 宋希斌 (syne January, 2012) |
| Area |
|  • Sub-provincial ceety | 53068 km2 (20,490 sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 2089 km2 (807 sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 4275 km2 (1,651 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 150 m (488 ft) |
| Population |
|  • Sub-provincial ceety | 10,635,971 |
|  • Density | 200/km2 (520/sq mi) |
|  • Urban | 4,517,549 |
|  • Urban density | 2,200/km2 (5,600/sq mi) |
|  • Metro | 5,282,083 |
|  • Metro density | 1,200/km2 (3,200/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (Cheenae Staundart Time) |
| Postal code | 150000 |
| Area code(s) | 451 |
| License plate prefixes | 黑A |
| GDP (2010) | CNY 3665.9 billion |
|  - per capita | CNY 36,961 |
| **Ceety flouers** | Syringa |
| Website | www.harbin.gov.cn |

**Harbin** (Cheenese: 哈尔滨; pinyin: *Hā'ěrbīn* [xɑ́ɻpín]); Manchu leid: , *Harbin*; Roushie: Харбин́ *Kharbin* listen ), is the 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. Harbin serves as a key poleetical, economic, scienteefic, cultural an communications hub in Northeast Cheenae.

Harbin is oreeginally a 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.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns an sister ceeties

Harbin is twinned wi:

### Domestic

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

### International

* Niigata, Japan, syne 1979
* Aarhus, Denmark, syne 1984
* Edmonton, Canadae, syne 1985
* Sverdlovsk Oblast, Roushie, syne 1991
* Minneapolis, Unitit States, syne 1992
* Anchorage, Unitit States
* Ekhuruleni, Sooth Africae
* Warsaw, Poland, syne 1993
* Daugavpils, Latvie
* Khabarovsk, Roushie
* Ploieşti, Romanie
* Asahikawa, Japan
* Bucheon, Sooth Korea
* Salvador, Brazil
* Giv'atayim, Israel
* Griffith, New Sooth Wales, Australie
* Krasnodar, Roushie
* Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, syne 2007
* Rovaniemi, Finland
* Magdeburg, Germany, syne 2008
* Krasnoyarsk, Roushie, syne 2008
* Wiener Neustadt, Austrick
* Yakutsk, Roushie, syne 2008
* Sunderland, Unitit Kinrick (2009)
* Fairfax Coonty, Virginie, Unitit States (2010)