Meihekou
Sign in to saveMeihekou () is a city of 600,000 in Jilin, People's Republic of China. It is a regional transport hub, connecting three railway lines, all of which are single track, and two national highways. The city is also a major lorry transshipment point in the region as it is also the junction of two trunk roads, connected to Liaoyuan in the northwest. The city is administratively a county-level city of the prefecture-level city of Tonghua, and is its northernmost county-level division.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Meihekou
- Settlement.native_name
- 梅河口市
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- zh
- Settlement.postal_code_type
- Postal code
- Settlement.postal_code
- 135000
- Settlement.settlement_type
- County-level & Sub-prefectural city
- Settlement.image_map
- MeihekouTonghua.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Meihekou in Tonghua
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- People's Republic of China
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jilin
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Prefecture-level city
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tonghua
- Settlement.seat
- Xinhua Subdistrict ()
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 2174.6
- Settlement.area_urban_km2
- 80.00
- Settlement.population_est
- 709000
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- 海龙县
- Country
- China
- Located in
- Fengtian
- Population
- 509336
- Area
- 2178.89
- Elevation
- 180
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Official website
- www.mhk.gov.cn
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- postal code
- 135000
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Encyclopedic overview
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Meihekou () is a city of 600,000 in Jilin, People's Republic of China. It is a regional transport hub, connecting three railway lines, all of which are single track, and two national highways. The city is also a major lorry transshipment point in the region as it is also the junction of two trunk roads, connected to Liaoyuan in the northwest. The city is administratively a county-level city of the prefecture-level city of Tonghua, and is its northernmost county-level division.
==Geography== Meihekou is located in southwestern Jilin province at latitudes 42° 08' to 43° 02' N and longitudes 125° 15' to 126° 03' E, stretching north−south and west−east. It is in the western foothills of the Changbai Mountains and on the upper reaches of the Huifa River (). Bordering county-level divisions are Huinan County to the east, Liuhe County to the south and southeast, Qingyuan Manchu Autonomous County (Liaoning) to the southwest, Dongfeng County to the west and northwest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meihekou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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