Heilongjiang

• (from Wade–Giles) Heilungchiang, Hei-lung-chiang
• (postal romanization) Heilungkiang

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóngjiāng).

• enPR: hāʹlo͝ongʹjē-ängʹ, hāʹlo͝ongʹjyängʹ

Heilongjiang

1. A province in northeastern China. Capital: Harbin.
   • 2007 December 24, Guo, Shipeng; Benjamin Kang Lim, “China detains farmers urging land privatization”, in Lindsay Beck; Roger Crabb, editors, Reuters‎, archived from the original on 11 March 2023, World News‎:

     Yu Changwu from the northeastern province of Heilongjiang has urged the ruling Communist Party to honor its “revolutionary ideals and pledges” and hand land back to the farmers.

2. Alternative form of Heilong Jiang
   • 1982, Bai Shouyi, editor, An Outline History of China‎, First edition, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 487:

     More than 7,000 people of Hailanpao and the sixty-four villages east of the Heilongjiang River were murdered, burned to death or drowned in the river.

   • 2005 November 27, Lague, David, “China apologizes to Russia for spill”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 March 2023, Asia Pacific‎:

     The Songhua is a major tributary of the Heilongjiang River, which crosses the border near the Russian city of Khabarovsk.

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heilongjiang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1260, column 3