Yilan County (; IPA: ) is a

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

of Heilongjiang Province, Northeast

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, it is under the administration of the

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Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

, the capital of Heilongjiang. It is more than to the east-northeast of central Harbin. Its county seat, which is also called Yilan (Yilan Town, ''Yilan zhen''), is located near the confluence of the Mudan River (formerly known as the Hurka River) with the Sungari. The easternmost

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of Harbin City, it borders Fangzheng County to the southwest, Tonghe County to the west, as well as the prefecture-level cities of Yichun to the north, Jiamusi to the northeast, Qitaihe to the southeast, and Mudanjiang to the south.

Transportation

* China National Highway 221 Station on the Harbin-Jiamusi intercity railway is located in the Sijianfang district, 5 km from town center.

History

During the rule of the

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in China, Yilan, formerly known as Sanxing (三姓;

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: San-hsing; historically also Romanized as San Sing), was one of the two important centers of the Jianzhou Jurchens of the Hurka River valley. (The other center was Ninguta in the upper reaches of the Hurka). Its Jurchen name was Ilantumen. The town retained its importance into the Qing period, and in 1692 became the seat of a deputy lieutenant-general (). Subordinated to the governor general (''jiangjun'') in Jilin City. the Sanxing ''fu dutong'' was in control of the northeastern section of

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Province (which in those days was much larger than now) – a large region stretching northeast along the Sungari and the

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to the Pacific Ocean.. There is als
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/ref> In 1887, three British travelers – H. E. M. James, Francis Younghusband and Harry English Fulford – visited Sanxing on their tour of Manchuria. According to Fulford's account, the town had a population of around 10,000, with trade in furs and fish (salmon and sturgeon) being its main industries. Lu Houmin, who was the official photographer for the top Chinese leaders particularly

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from 1950 to 1964 was born in Yilan.

Climate

Administrative divisions

Yilan County is divided into 6 towns, 2 townships and 1 ethnic township. ;6 towns *

Yilan Yilan may refer to: China * Yilan County, Heilongjiang (依兰县), county of central Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China * Yilan Town, Heilongjiang (依兰镇), seat of Yilan County * Yilan, Jilin (依兰镇), town in Yanji Taiwan ...

(), Dalianhe (), Jiangwan (), Sandaogang (), Daotaiqiao (), Hongkeli () ;2 townships * Tuanshanzi (), Yugong () ;1 ethnic township * Yinglan Korean ()

References

External links

Official website of Yilan County government
{{County-level divisions of Heilongjiang Districts of Harbin