Hegang

Hegang

See also: hégǎng and Hègǎng

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鶴崗／鹤岗 (Hègǎng).

Proper noun

Hegang

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China.
   • [1972, Shabad, Theodore, China's Changing Map‎, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, LCCN 71-178868, OCLC 482667885, page 271:

     The principal coal centers are Kisi, northeast of Mutankiang, and Hokang and Shwangyashan, in the Kiamusze area, all producing coal of coking quality. Hokang, the most important coal field, has 5 billion tons of Jurassic coal, part of which is accessible to strip-mining operations. Development of the Hokang basin began in 1936 with construction of a rail spur southward to the riverside coal terminal of Lienkiangkow on the Sungari River, opposite Kiamusze.]

Translations

prefecture-level city

Chinese: Mandarin: 鶴崗／鹤岗 (zh) (Hègǎng) Japanese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Hegang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, LCCN 98-071262, OCLC 164337564, page 1259, column 3