Mohe City
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Mohe (Template:Zh) is a county-level city in Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province. It is the northernmost city in China. As of the 2020 Chinese Census, it has a population of 54,036.
Administrative divisions
Mohe City is divided into 6 towns.
| Name | Hanzi[1] | Population (2020)[2] |
|---|---|---|
| Template:Interlanguage link | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 29,614 |
| Template:Interlanguage link | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 10,402 |
| Template:Interlanguage link | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 9,115 |
| Template:Interlanguage link | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 992 |
| Beiji | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 2,373 |
| Template:Interlanguage link | Script error: No such module "Lang". | 1,540 |
Geography
Mohe is located in the far northwest of Heilongjiang at latitude 52° 10'−53° 33' N and 121° 07'−124° 20' E. It forms a border with Russia's Amur Oblast and Zabaykalsky Krai, where the Amur River flows for Script error: No such module "convert".. A village, the northernmost Chinese settlement, at the latitude of 53° 29' N and known as the Beiji Village (Script error: No such module "Lang"., literally "North Pole Village" or "Northernmost Village"), lies in this city, on the Amur River.
On extremely rare occasions, the aurora borealis can be seen.[3]
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Maps
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Climate
Mohe, by virtue of its far northern location and proximity to Siberia, is one of the few locations in China with a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc, Trewartha Ecbd),[4] closely bordering on extreme humid continental, with long, dry, severe winters, and short, warm, wet summers.[5] Winter begins in early to mid-October and lasts until late April or early May, and temperatures then are normally the coldest nationwide. Average temperatures stay below freezing for a total of nearly seven months of the year, and the frost-free period is just short of 90 days; in addition, the diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging Script error: No such module "convert". annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from Script error: No such module "convert". in January to Script error: No such module "convert". in July, with an annual mean of Script error: No such module "convert"., so that the city is only a little south of the line of continuous permafrost. Extreme temperatures have ranged from Script error: No such module "convert".[6][7][8] to Script error: No such module "convert"..[9] The record low temperature of Script error: No such module "convert"., registered on 22 January 2023, was also the lowest temperature recorded in China.[10] December and January have never recorded an above-freezing temperature, and all 12 months have had sub-freezing temperatures at some point.
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Demographics
As of the 2020 Chinese Census, Mohe has a population of 54,036.[2] Per the census, members of 18 different ethnic groups live in Mohe, including the Han, the Manchu, Mongols, Koreans, the Sibe, the Oroqen, Evenks, and Russians.[2]
Transportation
Mohe railway station, opened in 1972, is the northernmost railway station in China. It has regular passenger service to Harbin, Qiqihar, and Shenyang.[11]
Mohe Gulian Airport, opened in 2008, is the nation's northernmost airport and the first Chinese airport built on permafrost.[12]
Notable people
In popular culture
- Mohe is the destination of both the main character and his fictional hero in Xiaolu Guo's film How Is Your Fish Today? (Jin tian de yu zen me yang?) (2006).
- Mohe Dance Hall 漠河舞厅 was destroyed by a major forest-fire on 6 May 1987 which killed 211 people and injured another 266 people. The dance hall was subsequently rebuilt, and is immortalised in the popular song Mohe Dance Hall, written and sung by Liu Shuang 柳爽, which was a viral hit in 2020, with over 2.3 billion views. It tells the story of a widower dancing alone after losing his wife in the fire. Liu dedicates the song to Zhang Dequan, whom he met when Zhang was dancing alone in the Mohe Dance Hall in 2019.[13][14][15]
See also
Sources
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- ↑ "Travel guide for Mohe Ballroom" https://www.trip.com/moments/poi-mohe-ballroom-136063426/ Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ↑ "Shall we dance? Song sheds light on tragedy from years past", by Li Yi and Wang Qingchu, Shine, 8 Nov 2021. https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2111087819/ Retrieved 21 May 2025.
- ↑ "Song tells heartbreaking story from devastating blaze" by Chen Nan and Zhou Huiying, China Daily Global, 6 Dec2021. Retrieved 21 May 2025.
External links
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