Ningan

Ning'an is a metropolis positioned about 20 km southwest of Mudanjiang, inside the southeast of Heilongjiang province, China, bordering Jilin province to the south. It is positioned on the Mudanjiang River, which flows north, sooner or later falling into the Sungari River close to Sanxing. Administratively, Ning'an is now a county-stage city, and a constituent a part of the prefecture-degree city of Mudanjiang. The land region of the whole county-stage town of Ning'an is 7,870 km2.

The reported population rely, as of 2004, stood at 440,000. The government of the "county-degree town" is located inside the metropolis of the identical name. Notable geographic capabilities of the county-level metropolis of Ning'an consist of Lake Jingpo and a crater underground forest. Lake Jingpo is a natural reservoir at the Mudanjiang River upstream from Ning'an important city place, end result of the volcanic eruptions approximately 10,000 years in the past. Sanggyeong, one of the capitals of the Balhae kingdom, changed into placed within trendy county-stage city of Ning'an.

Its website changed into near state-of-the-art small towns of Dongjingcheng and Bohai, approximately 25 km upstream from the Ning'an predominant urban vicinity. During the early Qing dynasty, the metropolis of Ning'an, recognized then underneath the Manchu name, become one of the most critical cities in the entire Manchuria beyond the "Willow Palisade". The name "Ningguta" actually manner "six" in Manchu language because it become as soon as guarded with the aid of six grandsons of Mongke Temur.