Genhe City or Gegengol (Mongolian: ᠭᠡᠭᠡᠨ ᠭᠣᠤᠯ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ; Chinese: 根河市), formerly Ergun Left Banner (Chinese: 额尔古纳左旗), is a county-level city in the far northeast of Inner Mongolia, China, under the administration of Hulunbuir City. The city spans an area of 19,659 square kilometres (7,590 sq mi),^[1] and has a total population of 130,722 as of 2019.^{[3]: 20–1}

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Genhe 根河市 • ᢉᢉᠠᠠ ᠭᠣᠤᠯ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ
County-level city
Location of Genhe in Hulunbuir City
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Coordinates: 50°47′N 121°31′E
Country	China
Autonomous region	Inner Mongolia
Prefecture-level city	Hulunbuir
Municipal seat	Hexi Subdistrict
Area [1]
• County-level city	19,659.0 km2 (7,590.4 sq mi)
• Urban	350.00 km2 (135.14 sq mi)
Elevation	714 m (2,343 ft)
Population  (2020)[2]
• County-level city	71,437
• Density	3.6/km2 (9.4/sq mi)
• Urban [1]	64,400
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard)
Postal code	022300
Area code	0470
Website	www.genhe.gov.cn

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Genhe has a monsoon-influenced subarctic climate (Köppen Dwc), making it one of the coldest locations nationally, with an annual mean temperature of −3.56 °C (25.6 °F). Winters are long, severely cold, and very dry in terms of total precipitation, while summers are short and warm; the normal monthly mean temperature ranges from −28.1 °C (−18.6 °F) in January to 17.6 °C (63.7 °F) in July. Over two-thirds of the annual precipitation of 438 mm (17.2 in) is distributed from June through August.

Genhe is divided into 4 subdistricts, 4 towns, and 1 ethnic township.^[6][7]

As of 2019, Genhe is home to 130,722 inhabitants, the 72nd most of Inner Mongolia's 103 county-level divisions.^{[3]: 20–1} As of 2017, 64,400 of Genhe's residents lived in urban areas.^[1]

Genhe's gross domestic product in 2019 totaled 3,200,870,000 renminbi (RMB), growing at a rate of 2.0% over 2018.^{[3]: 20–38} Of this, 16.87% came from the city's primary sector, 18.04% came from the city's secondary sector, and 65.09% came from the city's tertiary sector.^{[3]: 20–38}

Consumer retail sales in Genhe for 2019 totaled 2,305,160,000 RMB.^{[3]: 20–38}

Households in Genhe earned, on average, 28,375 RMB in disposable income in 2019.^{[3]: 20–38}

Genhe reported 71,030,000 RMB in public budget revenue in 2019, the lowest of Inner Mongolia's 103 county-level divisions.^{[3]: 20–4}

As of 2019, there are 119,000 mobile phone subscriptions and 29,200 internet subscriptions in Genhe.^{[3]: 20–38}

As of 2019, Genhe has seven primary schools and nine secondary schools.^{[3]: 20–38}

Genhe's medical institutions have 477 beds staffed by 942 personnel, as of 2019.^{[3]: 20–38}

A small number of ethnic Evenk reindeer herders remain in the city's Aoluguya Evenk Ethnic Township.^[7]

2,698 kilometres (1,676 mi) of highway run through Genhe as of 2019.^{[3]: 20–38}