Map with Daqing

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I realized that the last map didn't have Daqing on it. This one does. It is on the left side near Inner Mongolia.





Hope that helps!

Where is Daqing?

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Welcome to the blog I will be maintaining during my year in China.

Like me, most of you have very little knowledge of the geography of China so I thought I would provide you with map or two so that you can get your bearings.

I will be keeping you all up-to-date via this blog so type the address into your "favourites" tool bar and stay tuned.

I will be staying in DaQing, China in the northern Heilongjian province. It is pronounced Da-Ching! Like Ka-Ching but with a 'D'. Can't wait to get started. 19 days until I leave.

HeiLongJiang along with JiLin & LiaoNing Provinces was once known to the “outside world” (Westerners) as Manchuria. Today HeiLongJiang Province still has its harsh sub arctic climatic extremes and its cultural background, influenced over the centuries by warring factions of Mongols, Manchus, Russians and Han Chinese, now home to over 38 million people (95.2% Han Chinese with the rest made up of Daur, Hezhen, Hui, Koreans, Manchus, Mongols, Oroqin, Russians and Xibe minorities), HeiLongJiang is an industrial stronghold, rich with natural resources.

As China’s northern most province, HeiLongJiang shares borders with Russia, Inner Mongolia and JiLin covering an area of 460,000 Square Kilometers (177,607 Square Miles). Snow and Ice is what people come to see in HeiLongJiang, famous for its “Ice Festival” in HarBin (Capital of HeiLongJiang) where thousands of ice sculptures are carved out of the ice every year. HarBin hasn’t lost its Russian influence as much of the city was built by Czarist Russia in connecting the Trans-Siberian Railway to its Port of Vladivostok.