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Andong (Korean: 안동; Korean pronunciation:) is a city in South Korea, and the capital of North Gyeongsang Province. It is the largest city in the northern part of the province with a population of 167,821 as of October 2010. The Nakdong River flows through the city. Andong is a market centre for the surrounding agricultural areas.
"Red East"), formerly known as Andong, is a coastal prefecture-level city in southeastern Liaoning province, in the northeastern region of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest Chinese border city, [ 3 ] facing Sinuiju , North Korea , across the Yalu River , which demarcates the Sino-North Korean border .
Andong [a], or Liaodong [b], was a former province in Northeast China, located in what is now part of Liaoning and Jilin provinces. It was bordered on the southeast by the Yalu River , which separated it from Korea .
Andong may refer to: Andong, city in Yeongnam, South Korea; Andong Dam, South Korea; Dandong, formerly named Andong until 1965, city in Liaoning, China; Andong Province, a former province of China; Andong Duhufu, military government established by the Chinese Tang dynasty to rule portions of the Korean Peninsula
At 1,650 m²/17,760 ft², Bongjeongsa is the largest temple in Andong, and is the site of the oldest wooden building, Geungnakjeon, in Korea. [2] There are 10 buildings at the main temple and a total of 9 other buildings at Bongjeongsa's two sub temples found to the east and west of the main temple complex.
'Sunyu Line Fire' is a folk game in which people hang a bag filled with charcoal powder on a long string hanging in the air and enjoy a spectacular event in which flames leapt through the air. In Andong's Hahoe Village, the aristocrats took a poem and went out on the river where they sang and enjoyed the poem under the full moon in July.
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The Andong Dam is an embankment dam on the Nakdong River, 4 km (2 mi) east of Andong in Gyeongsangbuk-do province, South Korea. The purpose of the dam is flood control, water supply and hydroelectric power generation. Construction of the dam began in 1971 and was complete in 1976. [2]