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Heilong Jiang

Heilong Jiang proper noun: the Amur river.

Proper noun

Heilong Jiang

  1. The Amur river.
    • Hei-lung River is the principal water route in the district. It is open for navigation for 170-200 days in the year. Below Mo-ho, there is a regular schedule for passenger and cargo ships.[1962 September 21 [1959], “Heilungkiang Province”, in Sun Ching-chih (1327 2417 0037) [孫敬之], editor, Economic Geography of Northeast China (Liaoning, Kirin, Heilungkiang) [東北地區經濟地理], Peiping: United...
    • The planes were manufactured and assembled in Komsomolsk, which is located to the northeast of Khabarovsk, a Russian city in the lower valley of the Heilong Jiang (called the Amur River in Russia), at the confluence of the Heilong Jiang [...]1997, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 209-217, page 10

Forms of Heilong Jiang

alternative formHei-lung Chiang

Origin of Heilong Jiang

From Chinese 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóng Jiāng).

Questions about Heilong Jiang

What does Heilong Jiang mean?
Heilong Jiang means the Amur river.
What part of speech is Heilong Jiang?
Heilong Jiang is a proper noun.

Words near Heilong Jiang in the dictionary

  1. Heiligs
  2. heiling
  3. heilings
  4. Heilman
  5. Heilmans
  6. Heilong Jiang
  7. Heilongjiang
  8. Heiloo
  9. heils
  10. heilsgeschichte
  11. Heiltsuk

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