Heilongjiang
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng).
Proper noun
Heilongjiang
- A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.
- Alternative form of Heilong Jiang
- 1982, Bai Shouyi, editor, An Outline History of China, First edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, OCLC 924795897, page 487:
- More than 7,000 people of Hailanpao and the sixty-four villages east of the Heilongjiang River were murdered, burned to death or drowned in the river.
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Translations
province of China
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Amur — see Amur
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heilongjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1260, column 3
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