Harbin

American  

[hahr-bin] / ˈhɑrˈbɪn /

noun

Pinyin.

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

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Harbin British  

/ -ˈbɪn, hɑːˈbiːn /

noun

1. Also called: Ha-erh-pin.  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)

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Example Sentences

In 2020, a Ghana Air Force Harbin Z-9 helicopter made an emergency landing near Tamale Airport, and last year, another Ghana Air Force helicopter made an emergency landing at Bonsukrom in Ghana's Western Region.

From BBC

China already describes itself as a "near-Arctic state", even though its northernmost regional capital Harbin is on roughly the same latitude as Venice, Italy.

From BBC

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