Sunwu County () is a county under the administration of

Heihe Heihe (; ; Russian language, Russian: Хэйхэ) is a prefecture-level city of northern Heilongjiang province, China, located on the Sino-Russian border, Russian border, on the south bank of the Amur River, Amur (Heilong) River, across the r ...

City in the north of

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province, China, situated on the bank of

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, which demarcates the Sino-Russian border. The length of border line within Sunwu county is . Sunwu County is surrounded by

Lesser Khingan Lesser Khingan ( zh, c=小兴安岭, p=Xiǎo Xīng'ān Lǐng; , ''Maly Khingan'') is a mountain range in China's Heilongjiang province and the adjacent parts of Russia's Amur Oblast and Jewish Autonomous Oblast.

Mountains, and its

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age is 45%. The

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level is 40%.

Geography and climate

Sunwu County has a

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-influenced

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 cold ...

(

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''Dwb'') with very warm, humid summers and severely cold, extremely dry winters. The monthly 24-hour average temperature ranges from in January to , while the annual mean is . More than three-fourths of the annual precipitation occurs from June to September. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 52% in July to 73% in February, the area receives 2,576 hours of bright sunshine annually.

Administrative divisions

There are two

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and nine

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in the county: Towns: *

Sunwu Sunwu County () is a county under the administration of Heihe City in the north of Heilongjiang province, China, situated on the bank of Amur River, which demarcates the Sino-Russian border. The length of border line within Sunwu county is . Sunw ...

(), Chenqing () Townships: * Xixing Township (), Yanjiang Manchu Township (), Yaotun Township (), Woniuhe Township (), Qunshan Township (), Fendou Township (), Hongqi Township (), Zhengyangshan Township (), Qingxi Township ()

Transport

* China National Highway 202 *Beihei Railway

References

External links

Official site of Sunwu County
{{authority control County level divisions of Heilongjiang Heihe