Yakeshi (; zh, c=牙克石) is a

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Hulunbuir Hulunbuir or Hulun Buir, ''Hūlúnbèi'ěr''; , ''Khulunbuir'' is a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China. Its administrative center is located at Hailar District, its largest urban area. Major scenic features are the high ...

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, China. Yakeshi has a population of 391,627 and an area of . It is situated next to the Hailar River east of

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, the seat of Hulunbuir, and on the north side of the

Greater Khingan The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range ( zh, s=大兴安岭, t=大興安嶺, p=Dà Xīng'ān Lǐng; IPA: ) is a volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China. It was originally called the Xianbei Mountains, whi ...

Range. The city's economy is based on

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products, traditional Chinese medicines,

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farming,

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raising and

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industries. In 2008 several major players in the automobile industry established car testing facilities in Yakeshi. As part of the

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(ESC)-development for new cars, special prototype cars are tested under winter conditions on frozen lakes and special snow-tracks. The first such test facilities were set up in the city by the German automobile supplier

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whose development center for the Chinese car market is in

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in Eastern China. The city is connected by rail to

Harbin Harbin, ; zh, , s=哈尔滨, t=哈爾濱, p=Hā'ěrbīn; IPA: . is the capital of Heilongjiang, China. It is the largest city of Heilongjiang, as well as being the city with the second-largest urban area, urban population (after Shenyang, Lia ...

and Hailar, and the nearest airport is in Hailar. The original name for the city, Xuguit Banner, came from the Mongolian word for the area. Its name was changed to Yakeshi in 1983 when it was designated a county-level city.

Administrative divisions

Yakeshi is made up of 6 subdistricts and 10

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. Others: * Mugai Farm (莫拐农场) * Yakeshi Farm (牙克石农场) * Mianduhe Farm (免渡河农场)

Climate

Transport

Yakeshi is located on the Harbin-Manzhouli Railway.

Gallery

File:Txu-oclc-6614368-nm51-7.jpg, Map including Yakeshi (labeled as Ya-k'o-shih) (

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, 1951) File:Txu-oclc-6614368-nm51-10.jpg, Map including part of Yagshi qot (

, 1951)

References

External links

Official website of Yakeshi GovernmentPost codes of Inner Mongolia
(English) {{Authority control Cities in Inner Mongolia Hulunbuir