Harbin (chn)

Harbin

Harbin ranks 784th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Orange, New Jersey, and Lübeck. Memorable people born in Harbin include Meng Hongwei, Lidiya Vertinskaya, and Kong Linghui. Memorable people who died in Harbin include Itō Hirobumi. Harbin has been the birth place of many skaters, and actors and the death place of many politicians. Harbin is located in China.

Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang, China, and the largest city of the province—as well as the second largest urban population and the largest metropolitan population in Northeast China. Harbin has direct jurisdiction over nine metropolitan districts, two county-level cities, and seven counties. It is the eighth most populous Chinese city according to the 2020 census. The built-up area of Harbin has 5,841,929 inhabitants, while the total metropolitan population is up to 10,009,854, making it one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. Harbin serves as a key political, economic, scientific, cultural, and communications hub in Northeast China, as well as an important industrial base of the nation. Read more on Wikipedia