Mohe City

Mohe (Chinese: 漠河; pinyin: Mòhé) is a county-level city in Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province. It is the Northernmost Chinese city.

Mohe

漠河市
County-level city
Location of Mohe City jurisdiction (pink) in Daxing'anling Prefecture (yellow) and Heilongjiang
Mohe
Location of the city center in Heilongjiang
Mohe
Mohe (China)
Coordinates: 52°58′19″N 122°32′20″E
CountryPeople's Republic of China
ProvinceHeilongjiang
PrefectureDaxing'anling
County seatXilinji (西林吉镇)
Area
 • Total18,233 km2 (7,040 sq mi)
Elevation
435 m (1,427 ft)
Population
 • Total83,465
 • Density4.6/km2 (12/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code
165300
Websitewww.hlmohe.gov.cn
Mohe City
Chinese漠河
Literal meaning"Desert River"

Climate

Mohe, by virtue of its far northern location, is one of the few locations in China with a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc),[1]) with long, severe winters, and short, warm summers.[2] Winter begins in early to mid-October and lasts until late April, 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 17.2 °C (31.0 °F) annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −28.2 °C (−18.8 °F) in January to 18.3 °C (64.9 °F) in July, with an annual mean of −3.90 °C (25.0 °F), so that the city is only a little south of the line of continuous permafrost. Extreme temperatures have ranged from −52.3 °C (−62 °F)[3] to 39.3 °C (103 °F).[4]

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 245 kilometres (152 mi). A village, the northernmost Chinese settlement, at the latitude of 53° 29' N known as the Beiji Village (北极村, literally "Northernmost") lies in this city, on the Amur River. On extremely rare occasions, the aurora borealis can be seen.[6]

Mohe spans 150 kilometres (93 mi) from north to south and has a total area of 18,233 square kilometres (7,040 sq mi), occupying 21.6% of the prefecture's (Daxing'anling) area and 3.9% of the provincial (Heilongjiang) area. This creates a population density of only 4.64 persons/km2 (12.0 persons/sqmi).

Transportation
Mohe Railway Station

Mohe railway station, opened in 1972, is the northernmost railway station in China. It has regular passenger service to Harbin, Qiqihar and Shenyang.[7]

Mohe Gulian Airport, opened 2008, is the nation's northernmost airport.

Maps
Dzhalinda (1951)
Map including part of Mohe (AMS, 1951)

See also

Sources
  1. "The 6 climate zones of China". ClimateList. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  2. Krishna, K. R. (2015-01-28). Agricultural Prairies: Natural Resources and Crop Productivity. CRC Press. ISBN 9781482258066.
  3. "Climate". en.chinaculture.org. Retrieved 2018-12-19.
  4. Extreme Temperatures Around the World - world highest lowest temperatures. Accessed 2010-11-02
  5. 中国气象数据网 - WeatherBk Data (in Chinese). China Meteorological Administration. Retrieved 2020-04-15.
  6. "A Visit to China's "Arctic Village"". ChinaCulture.org. January 7, 2013.
  7. Mohe train schedule (in Chinese)
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