Mohe City

Mohe is a county-level city in Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province. It is the northernmost city in China. As of the 2020 Chinese Census, it has a population of 54,036.

Administrative divisions

Mohe City is divided into 6 towns.

Name	Hanzi	Population
	西林吉镇	29,614
	图强镇	10,402
	阿木尔镇	9,115
	兴安镇	992
Beiji	北极镇	2,373
	古莲镇	1,540

Geography

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. A village, the northernmost Chinese settlement, at the latitude of 53° 29' N and known as the Beiji Village, lies in this city, on the Amur River.
On extremely rare occasions, the aurora borealis can be seen.
Mohe spans from north to south and has a total area of, occupying 21.6% of the prefecture's area and 3.9% of the provincial area. This creates a population density of only 4.64 persons/km².

Maps

Climate

Mohe, by virtue of its far northern location and proximity to Siberia, is one of the few locations in China with a subarctic climate, closely bordering on extreme humid continental, with long, dry, severe winters, and short, warm, wet summers. 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 annually. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to in July, with an annual mean of, so that the city is only a little south of the line of continuous permafrost. Extreme temperatures have ranged from to. The record low temperature of, registered on 22 January 2023, was also the lowest temperature recorded in China. December and January have never recorded an above-freezing temperature, and all 12 months have had sub-freezing temperatures at some point.

Demographics

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.

Transportation

, opened in 1972, is the northernmost railway station in China. It has regular passenger service to Harbin, Qiqihar, and Shenyang.
Mohe Gulian Airport, opened in 2008, is the nation's northernmost airport and the first Chinese airport built on permafrost.

Notable people

Chi Zijian
In popular culture
Mohe is the destination of both the main character and his fictional hero in Xiaolu Guo's film How Is Your Fish Today? .
Mohe Dance Hall 漠河舞厅 was destroyed by a major forest-fire on 6 May 1987 which killed 211 people and injured another 266 people. The dance hall was subsequently rebuilt, and is immortalised in the popular song , written and sung by Liu Shuang 柳爽, which was a viral hit in 2020, with over 2.3 billion views. It tells the story of a widower dancing alone after losing his wife in the fire. Liu dedicates the song to Zhang Dequan, whom he met when Zhang was dancing alone in the Mohe Dance Hall in 2019.