Jixi
鸡西市 Kisih, Kihsi | |
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 a trunk road in Jiguan District | |
.png) Location of Jixi City (yellow) in Heilongjiang (light grey) and China | |
  Jixi Location of the city centre in Heilongjiang | |
| Coordinates (Jixi municipal government): 45°17′42″N 130°58′08″E / 45.295°N 130.969°E | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Province | Heilongjiang |
| County-level divisions | 6 districts 2 county-level cities 1 county |
| Township divisions | 459 |
| Incorporated (town) | September 1, 1941 |
| Incorporated (city) | March 7, 1957 |
| Municipal seat | Jiguan District |
| Government | |
| • Type | Prefecture-level city |
| • Mayor | Zhang Changrong (张常荣) |
| • CPC Jixi Secretary | Kang Zhiwen (康志文) |
| Area | |
| 22,488.47 km2 (8,682.85 sq mi) | |
| • Urban | 2,208.5 km2 (852.7 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 899.1 km2 (347.1 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 230 m (750 ft) |
| Population (2020 census)[1] | |
| 1,502,060 | |
| • Density | 67/km2 (170/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 683,232 |
| • Urban density | 310/km2 (800/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 560,118 |
| • Metro density | 620/km2 (1,600/sq mi) |
| • Major nationalities | |
| GDP | |
| • Prefecture-level city | CN¥ 51.5 billion US$ 8.3 billion |
| • Per capita | CN¥ 28,223 US$ 4,531 |
| Time zone | UTC+8 (China Standard) |
| Postal code | 158100 |
| Area code | 0467 |
| ISO 3166 code | CN-HL-03 |
| Administrative division code | 230300 |
| License Plate Prefix | 黑G |
| Climate | Dwb |
| Website | www |
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 "Jixi", as written in Chinese | |||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 鸡西 | ||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 鷄西 | ||||||
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| Manchu script | ᡤᡳᡥᡳ | ||||||
| Romanization | Gisi | ||||||
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| Russian | Цзиси | ||||||
Jixi (simplified Chinese: 鸡西; traditional Chinese: 雞西; pinyin: Jīxī) is a city in southeastern Heilongjiang Province, People's Republic of China. At the 2020 census, 1,502,060 people resided within its administrative area of 22,488.47 square kilometres (8,682.85 sq mi) and 560,118 in its built-up (or metro) area made up of 3 out of 6 urban districts (including Jiguan, Hengshan and Chengzihe). Jixi is on the Muling River about 30 km (19 mi) from the border with Russia's Primorsky Krai and 120 km (75 mi) from Lake Xingkai. The mayor of Jixi is Zhang Changrong (张常荣) since June 2015. The area is one of the important coal mining bases in China. A crater on asteroid 253 Mathilde was named after the city.