Manzhouli

Manzhouli 满洲里市 ·ᠮᠠᠨᠵᠤᠤᠷ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
County-level and sub-prefectural city
Clockwise from top: City center, Manzhouli Museum, Manzhouli Stadium, Beifang Market, Shiji Square
Manzhouli in Hulunbuir
Manzhouli Location in Inner Mongolia Show map of Inner Mongolia Manzhouli Manzhouli (China) Show map of China
Coordinates: 49°35′53″N117°22′44″E / 49.598°N 117.379°E / 49.598; 117.379
Country	China
Autonomous region	Inner Mongolia
Prefecture-level city	Hulunbuir
Municipal seat	Dongshan Subdistrict
Area [1]
• Total	732.4 km2 (282.8 sq mi)
Population  (2020) [2]
• Total	150,508
• Density	210/km2 (530/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	021400
Area code	0470
Website	www.manzhouli.gov.cn

Manzhouli
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	滿洲里
Simplified Chinese	满洲里
Postal	Manchouli
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mǎnzhōulǐ Wade–Giles Man3-chou1-li3

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1990	137,000	—
2004	160,000	+16.8%
2007	163,441	+2.2%
2010	249,473	+52.6%
Population size may be affected by changes on administrative divisions.

Ninety-five percent of Manzhouli's population is Han Chinese. The remainder are Buryat, Russian, Mongol, Manchu, or of other ethnicities.

Media

Much of the plot of the 2018 film An Elephant Sitting Still revolves around a number of characters traveling to a circus in Manzhouli.

Transportation

Railway

Railway border crossing at Manzhouli. The Chinese 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge changes here to the Russian 1,524 mm (5 ft).

Trains from Beijing to Moscow on the Trans-Manchurian branch of the Trans-Siberian Railway pass through Manzhouli Railway Station. There are also tourist lines to Chita, Krasnokamensk, Irkutsk, and Ulan Ude.

A break of gauge multi-modal transshipment facility was completed in 2008 across the Russian border in Zabaikalsk.

Air

Manzhouli Xijiao Airport is located in the western part of the city. Passengers can fly to Beijing and Inner Mongolia's capital city Hohhot from the airport as well as the Russian city of Chita and the Mongolian capital city Ulaanbaatar via Choibalsan. ^[10]

Highway

• By China National Highway 301 linked to Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang.

Education

Secondary schools include:

• Manzhouli No. 7 (满洲里市第七中学)
• Manzhouli No. 8 School (满洲里市第八学校)
• Manzhouli No. 11 (满洲里市第十一中学)

Sister cities

Manzhouli is twinned with the following sister cities. ^[11]

• Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
• Krasnokamensk, Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia
• Ulan-Ude, Buryatia, Russia

References

1. Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, ed. (2019). China Urban Construction Statistical Yearbook 2017. Beijing: China Statistics Press. p. 46. Archived from the original on 18 June 2019. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
2. Inner Mongolia: Prefectures, Cities, Districts and Counties
3. Siberia's black market logging (BBC News, 2008-04-09)
4. 中国气象数据网 – WeatherBk Data (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration . Retrieved 10 October 2023.
5. "Experience Template" 中国气象数据网 (in Simplified Chinese). China Meteorological Administration . Retrieved 10 October 2023.
6. "Extreme Temperatures Around the World" . Retrieved 2024-09-22.
7. "满洲里 - 气象数据 -中国天气网".
8. "Code of administrative divisions(County level divisions and the higher) of People's Republic of China in 2013". Ministry of Civil Affairs of the People's Republic of China.
9. "Manzhouli China-Russia Border Tourist Area". China Daily. December 12, 2017. Archived from the original on Oct 13, 2019.
10. "Hunnu Air launches Manchuria flight, stops Shanghai flight". Magnificent Mongolia. Archived from the original on Oct 29, 2013.
11. "Sister cities". Inner Mongolia News. Archived from the original on 2013-05-14.

External links

• China portal

• Official Site (Simplified Chinese)
• Information Portal (Simplified Chinese)
• Manzhouli : Where the Clock Always Strikes Nine Manzhouli: Photos and observations
• Manzhouli : City of the Plain Pictures and Stories of a trip to Manzhouli at www.pocopico.com
• Post codes of Inner Mongolia (English)