Fangchuan () is a village in
Jingxin ( / 경신진),
Hunchun
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,
Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
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,
Jilin
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,
China
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.
It is located along the
Tumen River
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, near the
China–North Korea–Russia tripoint
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 ...
where the borders of China,
North Korea
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and
Russia
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converge and is from the
Sea of Japan
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.
There is a national scenic area in Fangchuan.
See also
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Lake Khasan
Lake Khasan or Lake Hassan (russian: озеро Хасан; ) is a small lake in Khasansky District, Primorsky Krai of Russia, located southeast of Posyet Bay, on the border with North Korea and China, southwest of Vladivostok. It has a surface ...
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Battle of Lake Khasan
The Battle of Lake Khasan (29 July – 11 August 1938), also known as the Changkufeng Incident (russian: Хасанские бои, Chinese and Japanese: ; Chinese pinyin: ; Japanese romaji: ) in China and Japan, was an attempted military incurs ...
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Khasansky District
Khasansky District (russian: Хаса́нский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #161-KZ and municipalLaw #187-KZ district (raion), one of the twenty-two in Primorsky Krai, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the krai, wedged between ...
References
Hunchun
China–North Korea border
China–Russia border
Villages in China
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