Genhe
Genhe
根河市 • ᢉᢉᠠᠠᠭᠣᠤᠯᠬᠣᠲᠠ | |
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 Location of Genhe in Hulunbuir City | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Region | Inner Mongolia |
| Prefecture-level city | Hulunbuir |
| Municipal seat | Hexi Subdistrict (河西街道) |
| Area | |
| • Total | 19,659 km2 (7,590 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 714 m (2,343 ft) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 110,400 |
| • Density | 5.6/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 022300 |
| Area code | 0470 |
Genhe (Gegengol) ([ᠭᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠭᠣᠤᠯ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ (Гэгээнгол хот) Gegen Gôûl Hôt] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: text has italic markup (help); Chinese: 根河; pinyin: Gēnhé), formerly Ergun Left Banner or Ergun Zuoqi (simplified Chinese: 额尔古纳左旗; traditional Chinese: 額爾古納左旗; pinyin: É'ěrgǔnà Zuǒ Qí), is a city in the far northeast of Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. It is administratively a county-level city of Hulunbuir City.
Geography and climate
Genhe has a monsoon-influenced subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), and is the coldest officially-designated city in China, with an average annual temperature at the town of Tulihe, 35 kilometres (22 mi) to the south-southeast, of −4.4 °C (24.1 °F). Winters are long, severely cold, and very dry in terms of total precipitation, while summers are short and warm. At Tulihe, the monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from −28.7 °C (−19.7 °F) in January to 16.6 °C (61.9 °F) in July.
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