The Nen River or Nenjiang (), or Nonni () is a river in

Northeast China Northeast China or Northeastern China () is a geographical region of China, which is often referred to as "Manchuria" or "Inner Manchuria" by surrounding countries and the West. It usually corresponds specifically to the three provinces east of ...

. The Nen River flows through the northern part of

Heilongjiang Heilongjiang () Postal romanization, formerly romanized as Heilungkiang, is a Provinces of China, province in northeast China. The standard one-character abbreviation for the province is (). It was formerly romanized as "Heilungkiang". It is th ...

Province and the northeastern section of

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

, some parts of the river forming the border between the two regions. At in length, the Nen River is the longest tributary of the

Songhua River The Songhua or Sunghwa River (also Haixi or Xingal, russian: Сунгари ''Sungari'') is one of the primary rivers of China, and the longest tributary of the Amur. It flows about from the Changbai Mountains on the China–North Korea bo ...

. The Nen River flows in the general southern direction in a wide valley between the

Greater Khingan The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (; IPA: ), is a -long volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China. It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, which later became the name of the northern branch of th ...

and the

Lesser Khingan Lesser Khingan (; russian: Малый Хинган, ''Maly Khingan'') is a mountain range in China's Heilongjiang province and the adjacent parts of Russia's Amur Oblast and Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

mountain ranges in the west and east, respectively, and meets the

Second Songhua River The Second Songhua River is a tributary of the Songhua River in Jilin Province, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by population, m ...

near Da'an to form the Songhua River. The river is prone to flooding, as occurred most recently in 1998 and 2005.

Tributaries

Major tributaries of the Nen River include: *

Gan River The Gan River (, Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River. The Xiang-Gan uplands separate it from the Xiang River of neighboring eastern Hunan. Two similarly sized ...

(甘河) (Right) *

Nemor River The Nemor River (), sometimes spelled Nemo'er River, also known as Nemoer River, Namoer River, is a river located in the north-central part of Heilongjiang Province of the People's Republic of China. It is a tributary of the left bank of the Nen ...

(讷谟尔河) (Left) * Nuomin River (诺敏河) (Right) * Wuyuer (乌裕尔河)/Nuyur River (Left) *

Yalu River The Yalu River, known by Koreans as the Amrok River or Amnok River, is a river on the border between North Korea and China. Together with the Tumen River to its east, and a small portion of Paektu Mountain, the Yalu forms the border between ...

(雅鲁河) (Right) * Chuoer River (Right) * Taoer/Chaor River (洮儿河) (Right) * Huolin River (霍林河) (Right)

Cities

* Nenjiang (Mergen), named after the river *

Qiqihar Qiqihar () is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province. The built-up (or metro) area made up of Longsha, Tiefeng and Jianhua districts had 959,787 inhabitants, while the total populat ...

* Jiangqiao

History

During the

Qing Dynasty The Qing dynasty ( ), officially the Great Qing,, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last orthodox dynasty in Chinese history. It emerged from the Later Jin dynasty founded by the Jianzhou Jurchens, a Tungusic-speak ...

the Nenjiang provided an important communication route between southern

Manchuria Manchuria is an exonym (derived from the endo demonym " Manchu") for a historical and geographic region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China (Inner Manchuria) and parts of the Russian Far East (Outer M ...

and the cities of

and

Mergen Mergen (Old Turkic: 𐰢𐰼𐰏𐰤) is a Turkic deity of abundance and wisdom. Mergen is often depicted with a bow and arrow in one hand. Other important symbols include a white horse and the color white. He is associated with profundity and de ...

, both of which served at various points as capitals of the Qing Heilongjiang. A portage road connected the upper reaches of the Nenjiang with

Aigun Aigun (; Manchu language, Manchu: ''aihūn hoton''; ) was a historic China, Chinese Town (China), town in northern Manchuria, situated on the right bank of the Amur River, some south (downstream) from the central urban area of Heihe (which is a ...

on the

Amur The Amur (russian: река́ Аму́р, ), or Heilong Jiang (, "Black Dragon River", ), is the world's tenth longest river, forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China (Inner Manchuria). The Amur proper is long ...

as well. In November 1931, the bridge over the Nen River near Jiangqiao became the site of one of the first battles of the

Second Sino-Japanese War The Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) or War of Resistance (Chinese term) was a military conflict that was primarily waged between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan. The war made up the Chinese theater of the wider Pacific T ...

External links

Flooding of the Nen river - picture of 2005-07-21

The tributaries of the Nen River

including the "Hydrography of Amur-Heilong River basin" map showing the course of the Nenjiang in detail.

References

Rivers of Heilongjiang Rivers of Inner Mongolia Songhua River {{China-river-stub