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Daxing'anling Prefecture

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County-level divisions
  
4 districts 3 counties

Postal code
  
165000

Local time
  
Saturday 10:39 PM

Area code
  
0457

Time zone
  
China Standard (UTC+8)

Area
  
83,000 km²

Province
  
Heilongjiang

Daxing'anling Prefecture httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Country
  
People's Republic of China

Township-level divisions
  
6 subdistricts 24 towns 11 townships 2 ethnic townships

Village-level divisions
  
41 residential communities 80 villages

Weather
  
-19°C, Wind NW at 11 km/h, 64% Humidity

Points of interest
  
Da Hinggan Ling Five, Oroqen Nationality Museum, Qixiashan Botanical Garden, Shibazhan Paleolithic Site

Daxing'anling Prefecture (Chinese: 大兴安岭地区; pinyin: Dàxīng'ānlǐng Dìqū), also known as Da Hinggan Ling Prefecture, is the northernmost Chinese prefecture-level division, located in Heilongjiang Province. Its area is 46,755 square kilometres (18,052 sq mi) and has a population of 520,000, as of 2004. It is named after the Greater Khingan Range (Daxing'anling; ᠠᠮᠪᠠ᠋ ᡥᡳᠨ᠋ᡤᡤᠠᠨ ᠵᡠᡨ᠊ᡠᠨ; Amba Hinggan Jutun) Mountains. In 2007 it had a GDP of RMB 6.1 billion and a growth rate of 11.1%. In 2015 Daxing'anling Prefecture had a GDP of RMB 13.49 billion, while a GDP of RMB 15.39 billion in the year 2014.

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Map of Da Hinggan Ling, Heilongjiang, China

Administrative divisions

Daxing'anling Prefecture administrates 3 counties, 4 Forestry administration districts. These counties and management districts contain 6 urban subdistricts, 24 towns, 11 townships, 2 ethnic townships, 41 residential communities, and 80 villages.

Forestry divisions

Administrate by the State Forestry Administration's Heilongjiang Daxing'anling Forestry Group Corporation (Chinese: 黑龙江省大兴安岭林业集团公司) with 10 Forestry Bureaux and 61 Woodlands.

Administrate by Daxing'anling Prefecture Administrative Operation Forestry Bureau (Chinese: 大兴安岭地区行政公署营林局) with 3 County-level Forestry Bureaux and 6 Woodlands.

References

Daxing'anling Prefecture Wikipedia