Tumen River
| Tumen (Tuman) River | |
|---|---|
| Chinese Name | |
| Traditional Chinese | 圖們江 |
| Simplified Chinese | 图们江 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Túmenjiāng (tu2 men5 jiang1) |
| Wade-Giles | T'u-man-chiang |
| Korean Name | |
| McCune-Reischauer | Tuman'gang |
| Revised Romanization | Duman-gang |
| Hangul | 두만강 |
| Hanja | 豆満江 |
The Tumen (Duman) River is a river in northeast Asia, on the border between China and North Korea in its upper reaches, and between North Korea and Russia in its lower stretches. The name of the river comes from the Jurchen tumen, which means "ten thousand."
The river is 521 km long, rising in the Changbai (Jangbaek) Mountains and flowing into the Sea of Japan.
See also
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