Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River

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The Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River are between the north bank of the Amur River and the ROC-claimed national boundary in Russia at 50° N.
The Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River are between the north bank of the Amur River and the ROC-claimed national boundary in Russia at 50° N.
The Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River are opposite of Heihe, China and Blagoveshchensk, Russia, the red area next to the rightward shaded area on the map.
The Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River are opposite of Heihe, China and Blagoveshchensk, Russia, the red area next to the rightward shaded area on the map.

The Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River (traditional Chinese: 江東六十四屯; simplified Chinese: 江东六十四屯; pinyin: Jiāngdōng Liùshísì Tún) (literally "64 villages east of river") are located on the left bank (north bank) of the Amur River (known as Hēilóng Jiāng in Chinese) opposite of Heihe and on the east bank of Zeya River opposite of Blagoveshchensk. The area is 3600 km². In the Treaty of Aigun signed by Qing Dynasty China and Russian Empire, the north bank of the Amur was ceded to Russia. However, because the Sixty-Four Villages East of the Heilongjiang River had many Chinese residents, the area was still designated as administered by China.[citation needed]

During the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, Russia sent its troops to occupy the 64 Villages and forced the people there to cross the Amur themselves into China. Many Chinese people died in this invasion[citation needed].

The Republic of China (ROC), the successor of the Qing Empire, has never recognized the Russian occupation as legitimate. In the 1991 Sino-Russian Border Agreement, the People's Republic of China (PRC) renounced sovereignty of the 64 Villages. However, the Republic of China now based in Taiwan never renounced sovereignty of the area nor does it recognize any border agreements signed by the People's Republic of China with any other countries due to the restrictions imposed by Article 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of China and Section 5 of Article 4 of the Additional Articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China. Therefore, the area still appears as Chinese territory in many maps of China published in Taiwan even though it is now administered as a part of Amur Oblast, Russia.

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  • Tannu Uriankhai is another Russian territory claimed by the Republic of China now based in Taiwan.

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