Qiqihar
Qiqihar is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province.
Qiqihar is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, while the total population of the prefecture-level city was shrinking to 4,067,489 as of the 2020 census. In 2024, the total registered population of the city will be 5.06 million. Among them, the rural population is 3.165 million. These are mainly Han Chinese, though the city is also home to thirty-four minorities including Manchus, Daur, and Mongols. Numerous wetlands are close to Qiqihar, including the Zhalong Nature Reserve, famous in China for being home to numerous red-crowned cranes.
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Worth seeing in and around Qiqihar
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Bukui Mosque
The Bukui Mosque is a mosque in Qiqihar, in the Heilongjiang province of China. It is located in Mosque Road off Bukui Street.
2.1 km · mosque in China · Wikipedia - 022023 Qiqihar school gymnasium collapse
The roof of the school gymnasium of the No 34 Middle School of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China collapsed on 23 July 2023 at 14:56 local time, killing 11 people with another four injured.
2.5 km · building collapse in Qiqihar, China · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Zhalong Nature Reserve
- 02Dacheng
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Things to do
Not much. But here you can have easier access to train tickets for nicer places in northeastern China because the Qiqihar station is a large transfer hub. Look at cranes There is a national park located in the suburbs of Qiqihar. It is a beautiful grassland with marshes here and there. Qiqihar is famous for its cranes.
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Where to eat
Qiqihar Barbecue. A local delicacy. Qiqihar, the Daur language is "natural pasture", so here is the natural pasture of barbecue, Nenjiang nurtured the green ecology of Qiqihar. Qiqihar barbecue has "learned" from Manchu, Mongolian, Chaoxian, Hui, Daur, Ewenki and other ethnic groups, combined with each other's strengths, and formed its own style.
- 01Rice halal best beef
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Getting to Qiqihar
- Airports
- Qiqihar Sanjiazi (NDG), 14 km · Harbin Taiping (HRB), 263 km
- Stations
- Qiqihar railway station, 5.7 km · Qiqihar South railway station, 8.8 km
- Harbin → Qiqihar271 km · quickest by road, 4h 22m · ¥120–160
- Hailar → Qiqihar377 km · quickest by air, 6h 9m · ¥430–670
- Changchun → Qiqihar399 km · quickest by road, 6h 49m · ¥185–250
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No local-transport research exists yet for Qiqihar
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Qiqihar. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Qiqihar
- Longsha Districtdistrict in Heilongjiang Province, China5 km
- Tiefeng Districtdistrict in Heilongjiang Province, China4.4 km
- Jianhua Districtdistrict in Heilongjiang Province, China2.3 km