Heilong Jiang

See also: Heilongjiang, Hēilóngjiāng, and Hēilóng Jiāng

English

Alternative forms

Hei-lung Chiang (Wade–Giles)

Etymology

From Chinese 黑龍江／黑龙江 (Hēilóng Jiāng).

Proper noun

Heilong Jiang

The Amur river.
- 1997, Daily Report: People's Republic of China, numbers 209-217, page 10:
  The planes were manufactured and assembled in Komsomolsk, which is located to the northeast of Khabarovsk, a Russian city in the lower valley of the Heilong Jiang (called the Amur River in Russia), at the confluence of the Heilong Jiang [...]

See also

Heilongjiang (a Chinese province bordered by the river)

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