LeeskoAtlas

City

Daqing

China

Watercolour of Daqing, China. On the Songnen Plain, China's "Oil Capital" and "City of a Hundred Lakes", with Liming Lake and Longfeng Wetland Nature Reserve.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Liming Lake; Longfeng Wetland Nature Reserve; Iron Man Wang Jinxi Memorial Hall; Daqing Museum and Daqing Grand Theatre; lush Manchurian plain flora; Iron Man
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking across Liming Lake or Longfeng Wetland toward the city center, showing lake reeds and silver birch branches in the foreground, the calm lake water, boardwalks, and green pumpjack silhouette in the middle-ground, and the low-rise civic skyline and vast steppe horizon in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the thick reed marshes of Longfeng Wetland, silver poplar avenues, and lakeside birch woods.
Guarded against
Not Harbin, Qiqihar, or Changchun
Population1,604,027Wikidata: 2,904,532
Coordinates46.58°N, 125.00°E
Elevation149 m
Area21,205 km²
Time zoneAsia/ShanghaiUTC+8
Solar noon11:40clock runs 0.3 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Daqing and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Stanley, Falkland Islands — 605 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

HarbinCN157 km
ChangchunCN301 km
JilinCN327 km
FushunCN528 km
ShenyangCN547 km
AnshanCN628 km
PanjinCN651 km
PyongyangKP842 km

Twinned cities

1 of 8 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →

This city sits on

Wikipedia Official site