Mohe City


Mohe is a county-level city in Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province. It is the northernmost Chinese city.

Climate

Mohe, by virtue of its far northern location, is one of the few locations in China with a subarctic climate with long, severe winters, and short, warm summers. 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 annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, with an annual mean of, so that the city is only a little south of the line of continuous permafrost. Extreme temperatures have ranged from to.

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. A village, the northernmost Chinese settlement, at the latitude of 53° 29' N known as the Beiji Village lies in this city, on the Amur River. On extremely rare occasions, the aurora borealis can be seen.
Mohe spans from north to south and has a total area of, occupying 21.6% of the prefecture's area and 3.9% of the provincial area. This creates a population density of only 4.64 persons/km2.

Transportation

, opened in 1972, is the northernmost railway station in China. It has regular passenger service to Harbin, Qiqihar and Shenyang.
Mohe Gulian Airport, opened 2008, is the nation's northernmost airport.

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