Harbin

[ hahr-bin ]

noun

, Pinyin.

1. a city in and the capital of Heilongjiang province, in northeastern China.

Harbin

/ -ˈbɪn; hɑːˈbiːn /

noun

1. a city in NE China, capital of Heilongjiang province on the Songhua River: founded by the Russians in 1897; centre of tsarist activities after the October Revolution in Russia (1917). Pop: 2 989 000 (2005 est) Also calledHa-erh-pin

Example Sentences

Junhui Huang, a chemist at the Harbin Institute of Technology and the paper’s first author, says the team is working with a Chinese wastewater cleanup company to commercialize the new technology.

From Science Magazine

Parts of the five-story apartment building in Harbin were damaged, with one apartment’s balcony completely blown off, videos on social media showed.

From Seattle Times

Harbin is the capital of China’s northeastern Heilongjiang province.

From Seattle Times

“His job is to open the Defense Ministry to innovation,” Mr. Putin told journalists on Friday, while visiting the Chinese city of Harbin.

From New York Times

Winding up his state visit to China in the north-eastern city of Harbin on Friday, Mr Putin said that seizing Kharkiv was not part of Russia's current offensive in the region.

From BBC