Wudalianchi Global Geopark is located in the transition zone from Xiao Hinggan Mountains to Songnen Plain, which covers an area of 1,060 square kilometers with 14 solitary peak volcanoes, 11 shield volcanoes and 8 slag cone volcanoes as its main types of geological heritages. The 14 old and new volcanoes are regularly distributed in the geopark and they are the best preserved and the most typical volcanic cluster in the world, for which Wudalianchi has been named by scientists as the “Natural Volcano Museum”. The lava from the latest volcanic eruption blocked the vast sag basin lake Wudelinchi, forming 5 lakes which spread in the form of a string of beads, thus explaining the origin of the name Wudalianchi.