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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 or Dumen River is a 521 km-long river that serves as part of the boundary between China, North Korea, and Russia, rising in the Changbai/Jangbaek Mountains and flowing into the Sea of Japan. Traditional Chinese characters refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ...
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Standard Mandarin, or Standard spoken Chinese, is the official modern Chinese spoken language used by the Peoples Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Singapore. ...
Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: ), commonly called Pinyin, is the most common variant of Standard Mandarin romanization system in use. ...
Wade-Giles, sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization (phonetic notation and transliteration) system for the Chinese language based on Mandarin. ...
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Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. ...
The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ...
The Revised Romanization of Korean 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. ...
The Manchu language is a Tungusic language spoken by Manchus in Manchuria; it is the language of the Manchu, though now most Manchus speak Mandarin Chinese and there are fewer than 70 native speakers of Manchu out of a total of nearly 10 million ethnic Manchus. ...
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The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, Korea and Russia. ...
The river flows 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. Small Text For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ...
The Sea of Japan is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, Korea and Russia. ...
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. ...
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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 Mongol word 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] Honorary guard of Mongolia. ...
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. ...
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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]
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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