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The Tumen River (Chinese: 图们江; pinyin: Túmén Jiāng, Russian: река Туманная, Korean: 두만강; Korean pronunciation: []), also known as the Tuman River or Duman River, [a] is a 521-kilometre (324 mi) long river that serves as part of the boundary between China (left shore), North Korea (right) and Russia (left), rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea ...
The North Korea–Russia and China–North Korea borders run along the middle of the Tumen River, while the China–Russia border approaches the junction point overland from the north. Because the theoretical tripoint is in the middle of the river, where it would be impractical to install a border monument, the agreement provides instead that ...
The China–North Korea–Russia tripoint is the tripoint where the China–Russia border and the North Korea–Russia border intersect. The tripoint is in the Tumen River about 500 meters upstream from Korea Russia Friendship Bridge and under 2,000 meters from the Russian settlement of Khasan.
The original 1938 bridge, viewed from a roadside in China in 2012 The original and new bridges, viewed from China, 2018 Border control point for the bridge, at Quanhe, China. The Tumen River Bridge (Chinese: 图们江大桥) crosses the Tumen River between Quanhe , where the Quan River enters the Tumen River in Jilin Province, China, and ...
Tumangang-tong (Korean: 두만강동) is a neighbourhood in Sonbong, Rason, North Korea, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint [1] where the borders of the three countries converge. It is also the closest town in North Korea to the border with Russia , being located across the river from the Russian settlement of Khasan and the Chinese ...
HEIHE, China — For about 1,000 miles, China and Russia are separated by the vast Amur River — a symbol of the countries’ tense and complicated history. A Russian flag could be seen ...
The tracks are dual gauge because the Russian railroad system uses a track gauge of 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) while the North Korean system uses 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in). The bridge is served by the Khasan railway station on Russian soil and Tumangang Station on the North Korean side of the river.
The Chinese–Russian border or the Sino-Russian border is the international border between China and Russia. After the final demarcation carried out in the early 2000s, it measures 4,209.3 kilometres (2,615.5 mi), [ 1 ] and is the world's sixth-longest international border.