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Encyclopedia > Longjing (city)
Longjing (city)
Chinese name
Hanzi: 龙井市
Hanyu Pinyin: Lóngjǐng shì
Wade-Giles: Lung-ching shih
Hangul: 룽징시
Korean name
Hangul: 룡정시
Hanja: 龍井市
Revised Romanization: Ryongjeong-si
McCune-Reischauer: Ryongjŏng-si

Longjing is a city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, within Jilin province of northeastern China. it lies on the Tumen River opposite the north korea city Hoeryong. Technical note: Due to technical limitations, some web browsers may not display some special characters in this article. ... Pinyin (拼音, Pīnyīn) literally means join (together) sounds (a less literal translation being phoneticize, spell or transcription) in Chinese and usually refers to Hànyǔ Pīnyīn (汉语拼音, literal meaning: Han language pinyin), which is a system of... Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ... Hangul also refers to a word processing application widely used in Korea. ... Hangul also refers to a word processing application widely used in Korea. ... It has been suggested that Sino-Korean be merged into this article or section. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) 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. ... Jilin, a province of the Peoples Republic of China, is made up of the following administrative divisions: 9 prefecture-level divisions 8 prefecture-level cities 1 autonomous prefecture 60 county-level divisions 20 county-level cities 18 counties 3 autonomous counties 19 districts 1532 township-level divisions 456 towns... Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in Jilin province, in the northeastern part of the Peoples Republic of China. ...   (Chinese: ; Pinyin: Jílín; Wade-Giles: Chi-lin; Postal System Pinyin: Kirin; Manchu: Girin ula), 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: MÇŽnzhōu, Russian: ) is a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. ... The Tumen River, also known as the Duman River (in Korean), is a river in northeast Asia, on the border between China and North Korea in its upper reaches, and between North Korea and Russia in its lower stretches. ... Hoeryŏng is a city in North Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea. ...


Its population is approximately 258,000.


External links

  • Official website (Chinese)

Korean famous poet Yun, Dongju studied in Longjing City.


  Results from FactBites:
 
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (907 words)
Yanbian is south of Heilongjiang, east of Jilin's Baishan City, north of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province, and west of Russia.
Yanbian is designated as an autonomous prefecture due to the large number of ethnic Koreans living in the region.
Longjing City (龙井市 Lóngjǐng Shì): formerly county until 1987
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