| Mohe | |
| Settlement Type: | County-level city |
| Pushpin Map: | Heilongjiang#China |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the city center in Heilongjiang |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | China |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Heilongjiang |
| Subdivision Type2: | Prefecture |
| Subdivision Name2: | Daxing'anling |
| Seat: | Xilinji |
| Seat Type: | Municipal seat |
| Area Total Km2: | 18233 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 census |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Population Total: | 54036 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Coordinates: | 52.972°N 122.539°W |
| Elevation M: | 435 |
| Timezone: | China Standard |
| Utc Offset: | +8 |
| Postal Code: | 165300 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Showflag: | st |
| P: | Mòhé |
| Gr: | Mohe |
| Bpmf: | ㄏㄟ ㄌㄨㄥˊ ㄐㄧㄤ |
| L: | "Desert River" |
Mohe is a county-level city in Daxing'anling Prefecture, Heilongjiang province. It is the northernmost city in China.
Mohe City is divided into 6 towns:[2]
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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 (Chinese: 北极村, literally "North Pole Village" or "Northernmost Village"), lies in this city, on the Amur River.
On extremely rare occasions, the aurora borealis can be seen.[3]
Mohe spans 150km (90miles) from north to south and has a total area of 18233sqkm, occupying 21.6% of the prefecture's (Daxing'anling) area and 3.9% of the provincial (Heilongjiang) area. This creates a population density of only 4.64 persons/km2 (12.0 persons/sqmi).
Mohe, by virtue of its far northern location and proximity to Siberia, is one of the few locations in China with a subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc),[4] closely bordering on extreme humid continental, with long, dry, severe winters, and short, warm, wet summers.[5] 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 NaN°C in January to 18.3°C in July, with an annual mean of NaN°C, so that the city is only a little south of the line of continuous permafrost. Extreme temperatures have ranged from NaN°C[6] [7] [8] to 39.3°C.[9] The record low temperature of -53C, registered on 22 January 2023, was also the lowest temperature recorded in China.[10] December and January have never recorded an above-freezing temperature, and all 12 months have had sub-freezing temperatures at some point.
Mohe railway station, opened in 1972, is the northernmost railway station in China. It has regular passenger service to Harbin, Qiqihar, and Shenyang.[11]
Mohe Gulian Airport, opened in 2008, is the nation's northernmost airport and the first Chinese airport built on permafrost.[12]
