The border between Tumen and Namyang

Tumen (Chinese: 图们; pinyin: Túmén; Korean: 도문 Domun or 투먼 Tumeon) is a county-level city in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, within Jilin province of northeastern China. Of its 136,000 inhabitants, approximately 78,000 (or 57%) are of Korean descent. The two official languages are Chinese and Korean. Tumen is separated from Namyang of North Hamgyong province of North Korea by the Tumen River. Due to this proximity, many North Koreans escaping their country pass through Tumen. Tumen is also the location of a large detention center for captured North Koreans awaiting deportation. Tumen has two major food markets, the South Market and the North Market. Where most of the residents purchase their food. Packaged foods and meats are usually sold inside the building, and vegetables are sold outside. There are six elementary schools. Three Korean schools, and three Chinese schools. Image File history File links H018791bridge. ... Image File history File links H018791bridge. ... Pinyin is a system of romanization (phonemic notation and transcription to Roman script) for Standard Mandarin, where pin means spell and yin means sound. The most common variant of pinyin in use is called Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: HànyÇ” PÄ«nyÄ«n), also known as scheme... A county-level city (县级市 Pinyin: xiànjí shì) is a county-level administrative division of mainland China. ... 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. ... General look on the City of Namyang from the chinse side of the river. ... North Hamgyŏng (Hamgyŏng-pukto) is a province of North Korea. ... 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. ...

A riverfront promenade in the city has restaurants where patrons can gaze across the river into North Korea.^[1]

Notes

1. ^ [1] Onishi, Norimitsu, "Tension, Desperation: The China-North Korean Border", October 22, 2006. Information here comes from a one-paragraph caption ("The View from Prosperity") in the article's extensive illustration.

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External link

• Official site (Chinese, Korean)