Hulan District () is one of nine

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

of the

prefecture-level city A prefecture-level city () or prefectural city is an administrative division of the People's Republic of China (PRC), ranking below a province and above a county in China's administrative structure. During the Republican era, many of Chi ...

Harbin Harbin (; mnc, , v=Halbin; ) is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital and the largest city of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population after Shenyang and largest c ...

, the capital of

Heilongjiang Province Heilongjiang () formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is the northernmost and easternmost provinc ...

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China. It covers part of the northeastern suburbs. The district was approved to establish from the former ''Hulan County'' () by the

Chinese State Council The State Council, constitutionally synonymous with the Central People's Government since 1954 (particularly in relation to local governments), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the pre ...

on February 4, 2004. It borders

Bayan County Bayan County () is a county of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang. It borders Mulan County to the east, Bin County to the south, Hulan Distri ...

to the east, Bin County to the southeast,

Daowai District Daowai District () is one of nine districts of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, forming part of the city's urban core. It borders the districts of Hulan to the north, Acheng to the southea ...

to the south, and

Songbei District Songbei District () is one of nine districts of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China, forming part of the city's urban core. Its name literally means "north of Song", referring to its position ...

to the southwest, as well as the

Suihua Suihua () is a prefecture-level city in west-central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, adjacent to Yichun to the east, Harbin, the provincial capital, to the south, Daqing to the west and Heihe to the north. It has 3,756,167 inha ...

to the northwest.

History

After

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, the Hulan District was home of

Manchukuo Manchukuo, officially the State of Manchuria prior to 1934 and the Empire of (Great) Manchuria after 1934, was a puppet state of the Empire of Japan in Manchuria from 1932 until 1945. It was founded as a republic in 1932 after the Japanese ...

veterans who became

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because they failed to conscript the newly

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Administrative divisions

Hulan District is divided into 17 subdistricts, 7 towns and 3 townships. ;17 subdistricts *

Hulan Hulan District () is one of nine districts of the prefecture-level city of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast China. It covers part of the northeastern suburbs. The district was approved to establish from the former ''Hulan C ...

(), Lanhe (), Yaobo (), Limin (), Kangjin (), Shuangjing (), Jianshelu (), Xueyuanlu (), Zhangling (), Shenjia (), Nanjinglu (), Yumin (), Yutian (),

Yuqiang Yuqiang (, alternatively Yujiang 禺疆 or Yujing 禺京), in Chinese mythology is one of the descendants of Huang Di, the "Yellow Emperor". Yuqiang was also the god of the north sea and a wind god. His father was Yuhao, another sea god. Some accou ...

(),

Xiaoxiang Xiaoxiang (), also transliterated ''XiaoXiang'', ''Hsiao Hsiang'', and ''Chiu Chiang'', in some older sources, refers to the "lakes and rivers" region in south-central China south of the middle-reaches of the Yangtze River and corresponding, more ...

(), Gongyuanlu (), Sandian () ;7 towns * Erba (), Shiren (), Baikui (), Fangtai (), Lianhua (), Dayong (),

Liye Liye () is a town of Longshan County, Hunan Province, China. Located on the northern bank of You River (), Liye is the southernmost town of the county, and bordered to the west by Youshuihe Town () and Keda Township () of Youyang County, Daxi Tow ...

() ;3 townships * Yanglin (), Xubo (), Mengjia ()

Climate

References

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History

Administrative divisions

Climate

See also

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