Mohe City

Mohe City is divided into 6 towns.

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Mohe is located in the far northwest of Heilongjiang at latitude 52° 10'−53° 33' N and 121° 07'−124° 20' E. It forms a border with Russia's Amur Oblast and Zabaykalsky Krai, where the Amur River flows for {{convert|245|km}}. A village, the northernmost Chinese settlement, at the latitude of 53° 29' N and known as the Beiji Village ({{lang|zh-hans|北极村}}, literally "North Pole Village" or "Northernmost Village"), lies in this city, on the Amur River.

On extremely rare occasions, the aurora borealis can be seen.{{cite news |title=A Visit to China's "Arctic Village" |url=http://en.chinaculture.org/chineseway/2013-01/07/content_449653_4.htm |work=ChinaCulture.org |date=January 7, 2013}}

Mohe spans {{convert|150|km|0}} from north to south and has a total area of {{convert|18233|sqkm|0}}, occupying 21.6% of the prefecture's (Daxing'anling) area and 3.9% of the provincial (Heilongjiang) area. This creates a population density of only 4.64 persons/km² (12.0 persons/sqmi).

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Mohe, by virtue of its far northern location and proximity to Siberia, is one of the few locations in China with a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc, Trewartha Ecbd),{{Cite web|url=https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1400/1*OrM8cfpX6RhHVJVz-p5_ZQ.png|title=The 6 climate zones of China|website=ClimateList|access-date=2018-12-19}} closely bordering on extreme humid continental, with long, dry, severe winters, and short, warm, wet summers.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZa9BwAAQBAJ&q=mohe+Heilongjiang+subarctic+climate&pg=PA402|title=Agricultural Prairies: Natural Resources and Crop Productivity|last=Krishna|first=K. R.|date=2015-01-28|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781482258066|language=en}} Winter begins in early to mid-October and lasts until late April or early May, and temperatures then are normally the coldest nationwide. Average temperatures stay below freezing for a total of nearly seven months of the year, and the frost-free period is just short of 90 days; in addition, the diurnal temperature variation is large, averaging {{convert|17.2|C-change}} annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from {{convert|−28.2|°C|1}} in January to {{convert|18.3|°C|1}} in July, with an annual mean of {{convert|−3.90|°C|1}}, so that the city is only a little south of the line of continuous permafrost. Extreme temperatures have ranged from {{convert|−53.0|°C|1}}{{Cite web|url=http://en.chinaculture.org/library/2008-01/08/content_21794.htm|title=Climate|website=en.chinaculture.org|access-date=2018-12-19}}{{Cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/china-mohe-record-low-temperature-intl-hnk/index.html |title=China just saw its coldest temperature on record: Minus-63 degrees |newspaper=The Washington Post|date=23 January 2022|access-date=25 January 2022}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/01/23/china-record-low-temperature-mohe/ |title=China's northernmost city just saw its coldest day ever |work=CNN Travel|date=24 January 2022|access-date=25 January 2022}} to {{convert|39.3|°C|1}}.{{cite web | url=http://www.mherrera.org/temp.htm | title=Extreme Temperatures Around the World }} The record low temperature of {{convert|-53.0|C|1}}, registered on 22 January 2023, was also the lowest temperature recorded in China.{{Cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3207822/china-records-its-lowest-ever-temperature-northernmost-city-mohe |title=China records its lowest-ever temperature in northernmost city of Mohe |newspaper=South China Morning Post|date=23 January 2023|access-date=1 January 2024}} December and January have never recorded an above-freezing temperature, and all 12 months have had sub-freezing temperatures at some point.

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| Jan record high C = −4.6

| Feb record high C = 5.5

| Mar record high C = 16.2

| Apr record high C = 28.4

| May record high C = 35.1

| Jun record high C = 39.3

| Jul record high C = 38.0

| Aug record high C = 35.5

| Sep record high C = 31.7

| Oct record high C = 25.1

| Nov record high C = 10.2

| Dec record high C = −3.2

| year record high C = 39.3

| Jan high C = -18.0

| Feb high C = -11.1

| Mar high C = −1.9

| Apr high C = 8.7

| May high C = 17.7

| Jun high C = 24.7

| Jul high C = 26.3

| Aug high C = 23.6

| Sep high C = 17.1

| Oct high C = 5.5

| Nov high C = −8.7

| Dec high C = -18.7

| Jan mean C = −27.9

| Feb mean C = −23.3

| Mar mean C = −12.2

| Apr mean C = 0.8

| May mean C = 9.3

| Jun mean C = 15.9

| Jul mean C = 18.6

| Aug mean C = 15.4

| Sep mean C = 7.9

| Oct mean C = −2.6

| Nov mean C = −17.4

| Dec mean C = −27.1

| Jan low C = −34.9

| Feb low C = −32.3

| Mar low C = -22.0

| Apr low C = −7.6

| May low C = 0.2

| Jun low C = 6.4

| Jul low C = 11.1

| Aug low C = 8.5

| Sep low C = 0.5

| Oct low C = −9.4

| Nov low C = −24.2

| Dec low C = −33.3

| Jan record low C = -53.0

| Feb record low C = −52.3

| Mar record low C = −42.7

| Apr record low C = −32.6

| May record low C = −13.1

| Jun record low C = −5.3

| Jul record low C = −1.4

| Aug record low C = -4.4

| Sep record low C = −12.2

| Oct record low C = −28.7

| Nov record low C = −41.9

| Dec record low C = −50.9

| year record low C = -53.0

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| Jan precipitation mm = 6.7

| Feb precipitation mm = 4.4

| Mar precipitation mm = 6.2

| Apr precipitation mm = 18.4

| May precipitation mm = 44.4

| Jun precipitation mm = 60.1

| Jul precipitation mm = 117.0

| Aug precipitation mm = 99.4

| Sep precipitation mm = 52.3

| Oct precipitation mm = 27.7

| Nov precipitation mm = 13.1

| Dec precipitation mm = 8.1

| Jan humidity = 68

| Feb humidity = 65

| Mar humidity = 61

| Apr humidity = 54

| May humidity = 57

| Jun humidity = 70

| Jul humidity = 78

| Aug humidity = 81

| Sep humidity = 75

| Oct humidity = 69

| Nov humidity = 72

| Dec humidity = 70

|unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm

|Jan precipitation days = 8.1

|Feb precipitation days = 6.2

|Mar precipitation days = 5.2

|Apr precipitation days = 7.0

|May precipitation days = 11.5

|Jun precipitation days = 13.3

|Jul precipitation days = 16.5

|Aug precipitation days = 14.8

|Sep precipitation days = 11.8

|Oct precipitation days = 9.9

|Nov precipitation days = 9.9

|Dec precipitation days = 9.7

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|Jan sun = 144.2

|Feb sun = 189.4

|Mar sun = 255.6

|Apr sun = 248.4

|May sun = 241.4

|Jun sun = 268.0

|Jul sun = 225.3

|Aug sun = 222.0

|Sep sun = 200.9

|Oct sun = 173.9

|Nov sun = 150.8

|Dec sun = 125.1

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| Jan percentsun = 56

| Feb percentsun = 67

| Mar percentsun = 69

| Apr percentsun = 59

| May percentsun = 49

| Jun percentsun = 53

| Jul percentsun = 45

| Aug percentsun = 49

| Sep percentsun = 54

| Oct percentsun = 54

| Nov percentsun = 59

| Dec percentsun = 53

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|Jan snow days = 9.4

|Feb snow days = 8.1

|Mar snow days = 6.5

|Apr snow days = 7.2

|May snow days = 1.0

|Jun snow days = 0.2

|Jul snow days = 0

|Aug snow days = 0.1

|Sep snow days = 1.3

|Oct snow days = 9.1

|Nov snow days = 11.7

|Dec snow days = 11.4

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As of the 2020 Chinese Census, Mohe has a population of 54,036. Per the census, members of 18 different ethnic groups live in Mohe, including the Han, the Manchu, Mongols, Koreans, the Sibe, the Oroqen, Evenks, and Russians.

File:Mohe County Railway Station.jpg

Mohe railway station, opened in 1972, is the northernmost railway station in China. It has regular passenger service to Harbin, Qiqihar, and Shenyang.{{Cite web|url=https://qq.ip138.com/train/heilongjiang/mohe.htm|title=漠河列车时刻表 漠河火车时刻表 www.ip138.com|website=qq.ip138.com}}

Mohe Gulian Airport, opened in 2008, is the nation's northernmost airport and the first Chinese airport built on permafrost.{{cite web | url=http://travel.people.com.cn/GB/41636/7419639.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120608155059/http://travel.people.com.cn/GB/41636/7419639.html | archive-date=2012-06-08 | title=中国最北极机场漠河机场正式通航--旅游--人民网 }}

• Chi Zijian

• Mohe is the destination of both the main character and his fictional hero in Xiaolu Guo's film How Is Your Fish Today? (Jin tian de yu zen me yang?) (2006).

• List of extreme points of China

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120503082646/http://www.hlmohe.gov.cn/ Mohe People's Government website] {{in lang|zh}}

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