Harbin

Harbin ( ); Manchu leid: 15px, Harbin; ́ Kharbin ), 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)

 References 


Category:Provincial caipitals in Cheenae