Keshan () is a county in western

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, China, about northeast of

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 ...

, which administers it. It is named from a city-shaped extinct volcano, which has a name of Erkeshan in its territory. Its total area is , with a population of 460,000. Post Code: 161610. The seat of Keshan County is located in Keshan Town.

Geography and climate

Keshan has a

humid continental climate A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and freez ...

( Köppen ''Dwa/Dwb''), with long, bitterly cold, but dry winters, and humid, very warm summers. The monthly daily mean temperature in January, the coldest month, is , and July, the warmest month, averages , with an average annual temperature . A majority of the annual precipitation falls in July and August alone. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 54% in July to 71% in February, sunshine is abundant and the area receives 2,710 hours of bright sunshine annually.

Administrative divisions

There are seven

towns A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an or ...

and eight

townships A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative subdivision, with its meaning varying in different countries. Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, C ...

in the county: Towns: * Keshan (), Beixing (), Xicheng (), Gucheng (), Beilian (), Xihe (), Shuanghe () Townships: * Henan Township (), Hebei Township (), Gubei Township (), Xilian Township (), Fazhan Township (), Xijian Township (), Xianghua Township (), Shuguang Township ()

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{{authority control Volcanoes of China Extinct volcanoes of Asia Districts of Qiqihar County level divisions of Heilongjiang Landforms of Heilongjiang