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Coordinates: 42°25′47″N, 130°36′41″E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...
The Tumen River is a 521 km-long river that serves as part of the boundary between China, North Korea, and the Russian Federation, rising in the Changbai/Jangbaek Mountains and flowing into the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Image File history File links Flag_of_the_Peoples_Republic_of_China. ...
Traditional Chinese characters are one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ...
Simplified Chinese characters (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ; also Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ) refer to one of two standard Chinese character sets of printed contemporary Chinese written language, officially simplified by the government of the Peoples Republic of China in an attempt to promote literacy. ...
It has been suggested that Pinyin method be merged into this article or section. ...
Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ...
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The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: êµì–´ì˜ ë¡œë§ˆìž í‘œê¸°ë²•; åœ‹èªžì˜ ë¡œë§ˆå— è¡¨è¨˜æ³•) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ...
McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ...
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The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
The Manchu language is a member of the Tungusic languages of Altaic family; it used to be the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 100 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus. ...
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The Cyrillic alphabet (pronounced , also called azbuka, from the old name of the first two letters) is an alphabet used for several East and South Slavic languages—Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, and Ukrainian—and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ...
There exist many possible systems for transliterating the Cyrillic alphabet of the Russian language to English or the Latin alphabet. ...
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The Sea of Japan (East Sea) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. ...
Also known as the Duman River (in Korean), it lies in northeast Asia, on the border between China and North Korea in its upper reaches, and between North Korea and Russia in its last 11 miles before entering the Sea of Japan. The river forms much of the southern border of Jilin Province in Manchuria and the northern borders of North Korea's North Hamgyong and Yanggang provinces. Mount Paektu on the Chinese-North Korean border is the source of the river,[1] as well as of the Yalu River. World map showing the location of Asia. ...
The Sea of Japan (East Sea) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. ...
Jilin (Chinese: 吉林; pinyin: Jílín; Wade-Giles: Chi-lin; Postal System Pinyin: Kirin), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country. ...
Manchuria (Manchu: Manju; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; Simplified Chinese: 满洲; pinyin: MÇŽnzhÅu, Russian: ) is a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. ...
North HamgyÅng (HamgyÅng-pukto) is a province of North Korea. ...
Ryanggang (Ryanggang-do) is a province in North Korea. ...
Baitou (Paektu) Mountain is a mountain on the border between China and North Korea. ...
The Amnok River, or the Yalu River, is a river on the border between China and North Korea. ...
The name of the river comes from the Mongols tumen, meaning "ten thousand". This river is badly polluted by the nearby factories of North Korea and China; however, it still remains a major tourist attraction in the area. In Tumen, China, a riverfront promenade has restaurants where patrons can gaze across the river into North Korea.[1] The name Mongols (Mongolian: Mongol) specifies one or several ethnic groups. ...
Tumen was the part of decimal system used by Turkic, Proto-Turkic (such as the Huns) and by Mongol peoples for their army. ...
Important cities on the river are Hoeryong, Namyang and Onsong in North Korea, Tumen and Nanping in China. HoeryÅng is a city in North HamgyÅng Province, North Korea. ...
General look on the City of Namyang from the chinse side of the river. ...
OnsÅng is a county (kun) in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, near the border with China. ...
The border between Tumen and Namyang Tumen (Chinese: ; pinyin: Túmén; Korean: ë„문 Domun or 투먼 Tumeon) is a county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, within Jilin province of northeastern China. ...
Refugee crossing
The Tumen has been used for years by North Korean refugees defecting across the Chinese border. Most refugees from North Korea during the 1990s famine crossed over the Tumen River, and most recent refugees have also used it.
Although the Tumen is heavily patrolled by armed guards of the DPRK who are ordered to shoot to kill, the river is considered the preferred way to cross into China because, unlike the swift and deep Yalu River which runs along most of the border between the two countries, the Tumen is shallow and narrow.[1] "It is easily crossed in spots on foot or by swimming," according to a 2006 article in The New York Times.[1] The Amnok River, or the Yalu River, is a river on the border between China and North Korea. ...
The New York Times is a newspaper published in New York City by Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. ...
Defectors who wish to cross the Tumen often ignore its pollutants and dangerous border patrol, and spend weeks if not months or years waiting for the perfect opportunity to cross.
"Long, desolate stretches of the [Chinese-North Korean] border are not patrolled at all," according to The New York Times article.[1]
Refugees seldom cross the Tumen into Russia because that government patrols its short stretch of the river more actively than China, and the refugees have no large ethnic Korean community in which to hide.[1]
See also China stretches some 5,000 kilometers across the East Asian landmass in an erratically changing configuration of broad plains, expansive deserts, and lofty mountain ranges, including vast areas of inhospitable terrain. ...
Map of North Korea North Korea is located in eastern Asia, on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula. ...
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These are the major Rivers of Asia. ...
Notes - ^ a b c d e f [1] Onishi, Norimitsu, "Tension, Desperation: The China-North Korean Border", October 22, 2006. Much of the information cited in this footnote comes from the captions to the large illustrated map published with the newspaper article and available online with it.
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