Fangchuan (; ) is a village in

Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the east of Jilin, Jilin Province, China. Yanbian is bordered to the north by Heilongjiang, Heilongjiang Province, to the west by Jilin's Baishan, Baishan City and Jilin Ci ...

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, China. It is located near the tripoint where China's borders with

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

and

Russia Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders ...

intersect. Administratively, it is part of the town of Jingxin, itself a part of

Hunchun Hunchun is a county-level city in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture within Jilin province to the far east. It borders North Hamgyong Province in North Korea and Primorsky Krai in Russia, has over 250,000 inhabitants, and covers 5,145&nbs ...

, the easternmost city of Yanbian Prefecture. The 100 residents who live in Fangchuan are all ethnic Koreans ().

Geography

Fangchuan is located along the

Tumen River The Tumen River (, , ; Korean pronunciation: tumaŋaŋ">Help:IPA/Korean">tumaŋaŋ, also known as the Tuman River or Duman River, is a long river that serves as part of the boundary between China (left shore), North Korea (right) and Russi ...

, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint where the borders of the three countries converge. Nearby settlements along the border include Tumangang in North Korea and Khasan in Russia. Historically, Fangchuan had access to

Lake Khasan Lake Khasan or Lake Hassan (; ) is a small lake in Khasansky District, Primorsky Krai of Russia, located southeast of Posyet Bay, near the border with North Korea and China, southwest of Vladivostok. It has a surface area of . The Tanbogatyi R ...

and the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...

(located away), but access is now cut off by North Korean and Russian territory.

Administration

The village is administered as part of Jingxin, a town which is under the jurisdiction of

, the easternmost city of

Tourism

The Chinese government promotes Fangchuan as an open-air folk museum and a symbol of interethnic unity between the

Han Chinese The Han Chinese, alternatively the Han people, are an East Asian people, East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China. With a global population of over 1.4 billion, the Han Chinese are the list of contemporary ethnic groups, world's la ...

and (Chinese) Koreans. Fangchuan's official nickname is the "First Village of the East" (; ). The village is surrounded by the Fangchuan National Scenic Area, a designated tourist zone. It covers of mountainous, forested terrain. The area has a temperate, maritime, monsoon climate that is mild and humid, suitable for a variety of flora and fauna, including several species of endangered birds. Locals sell seafood caught in nearby waters, such as river shrimps ('' Macrobrachium''), river crabs ('' Eriocheir sinensis''),

salmon Salmon (; : salmon) are any of several list of commercially important fish species, commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera ''Salmo'' and ''Oncorhynchus'' of the family (biology), family Salmonidae, native ...

, and crucian carp.

Demographics

, the village has about 100 residents, 43 of whom were born in the village, and all of whom are ethnic Koreans.

References

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Geography

Administration

Tourism

Demographics

See also

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