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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The original Convention of Peking (Beijing) states this section of the border lies along the Granitnaya, but the origin of the river de facto lay inside Russian territory. With the 1991 agreement, Russia transferred 9 km 2 (3.5 sq mi) to China so that now the Sino-Russian border runs along the entire length of the river.
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 Port , where the Quan River enters the Tumen River in Jilin Province, China, and ...
Khasan is the only Russian-inhabited locality on the border with North Korea.It lies near Lake Khasan and the Tumen River.The border between Russia and North Korea is formed by the river, but the Tumen's course sometimes changes during floods, effectively diminishing the territory of Russia and threatening to flood the settlement of Khasan and the Peschanaya border station.