Heilong Jiang

proper noun

The Amur river.

Meanings

proper noun

alternative Hei-lung Chiang

  1. The Amur river.

    Hei-lung River is the principal water route in the district. It is open for navigation for 170-200 days in the year. Below Mo-ho, there is a regular schedule for passenger and cargo ships.

    東北地區經濟地理

    [1962 September 21 [1959], “Heilungkiang Province”, in Sun Ching-chih (1327 2417 0037) [孫敬之], editor, Economic Geography of Northeast China (Liaoning, Kirin, Heilungkiang) [東北地區經濟地理], Peiping: United States Joint Publications Research Service, sourced from Tung-pei Ti-chü Ching-chi Ti-li, K'o-hsueh Ch'u-pan-she, Peiping, 1959, pages 1-211, translation of original in Chinese, →OCLC, page 512
    1 more example

    The planes were manufactured and assembled in Komsomolsk, which is located to the northeast of Khabarovsk, a Russian city in the lower valley of the Heilong Jiang (called the Amur River in Russia), at the confluence of the Heilong Jiang [...]

    1997, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 209-217, page 10

Origin

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