Heihe

• (from Wade–Giles) Hei-ho

From Mandarin 黑河 (Hēihé, literally “black river”) referring to the Amur.

Heihe

1. A prefecture-level city in Heilongjiang, China, on the Russian border, across the Amur river from the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk.
   • [1977 November, Rewi Alley, “To Heiho on the Heilungkiang”, in Eastern Horizon‎, volume XVI, number 11, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8, column 2:

     Nunkiang is a county of 450,000 people on a wide area, one of the counties of Heiho prefecture.]

   • 2015 December 15, Michael Schuman, “Thaw in China-Russia Relations Hasn’t Trickled Down”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 December 2015, International Business‎:

     Trade between Heihe and Blagoveshchensk reopened in 1986, and in 2000 a small special economic zone was formed along the border to encourage commerce. Shop fronts in Heihe display signs in both Chinese characters and Russian Cyrillic.

• Black River

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Heihe”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1260, column 2