Harbin facts for kids

Location of Harbin Municipality in Heilongjiang Province

Harbin

Harbin, is the capital city of Heilongjiang, a northeast province of China. In recent years, Harbin is well-known worldwide for Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, Harbin Summer Music Festival and Harbin International Beer Festival. Harbin Ice Festival makes Harbin become China's coolest ice city for a winter holiday trip.

Background

Governing 12 districts and 10 counties, Harbin Municipality has a population of 9,873,743 and 4,754,753 of whom lives in the city proper of Harbin. Administrative divisions as below:

Daoli District
Nangang District
Daowai District
Xiangfang District
Pingfang District
Songbei District
Hulan District
Acheng District

Shuangcheng
Shangzhi
Wuchang
Yilan County
Fangzheng County
Bin County
Bayan County
Mulan County
Tonghe County
Yanshou County

Images for kids

Monument of Wanyan Aguda in Acheng District
St. Nicolas Orthodox, a Russian Orthodox church in Harbin, circa 1940, demolished during the Cultural Revolution
Harbin's Kitayskaya Street (Russian for "Chinese Street"), now Zhongyang Street (Chinese for "Central Street"), before 1945
Headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Army's covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit (Unit 731)
Three different nationalities – Chinese, Japanese and Russian – on Kitaiskaia Street
Monument to Soviet soldiers in Harbin's Nangang District, built by Soviet Red Army in 1945
Huang Shan Jewish Cemetery of Harbin
Harbin and vicinities, LandSat-5 satellite image, 2010-09-22
Headquarters of Harbin Bank
Office Buildings around Harbin ICE Center
Traditional Guo Bao Rou
Harbin-style smoked sausage
Tower at Harbin Ice and Snow Festival, 2013
Snow Sculpture in Sun Island, 2011
Harbin Music Park, located in Youyi West Road.
Dragon Tower(Long Ta), a 336-meter-tall freestanding lattice tower, serves as the headquarter of HLJTV.
Ji Le Temple (Temple of Bliss), a Buddhist temple in Harbin.
Aerial view of Harbin Grand Theatre
Division B of the 2018 Bandy World Championship was played at the Harbin Sport University Stadium
Haping road, one of the main municipal roads in the south of Harbin.
Hexing Road, western part of Harbin's 2nd ring road.
Entrance of Taipingqiao Station of Line 1, Harbin Metro
Yidaeryuan (2nd Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University) Station, interchange station between Line 1 and Line 3.
The main building of Harbin Institute of Technology. Note the Stalinist "tier-cake" façade, reminiscent of the "Seven Sisters" in Moscow.
North terminal of Harbin Railway Station
Harbin West Railway Station
Harbin East Railway Station
Harbin South Railway Station.
A CRH High-Speed train enters Harbin West railway station