Dunhua
Sign in to saveDunhua (; Korean: ) is a county-level city of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Jilin province, China. It has more than 480,000 inhabitants (as of 2002) and was the capital of Balhae between 742 and 756, known at the time as "Junggyeong". During the Qing dynasty it was called Áodōng () in Chinese and Odoli in Manchu.
Key facts
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- Dunhua
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- County-level city
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- Dunhua in 2013
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- Location of the city
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- Country
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- China
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- Province
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- Jilin
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- Prefecture
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- Yanbian
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- Minzhu Subdistrict
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- Municipal seat
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- auto
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 11957.0
- Settlement.area_urban_km2
- 116.00
- Settlement.population_total
- 392486
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2020 census
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Dunhua (; Korean: ) is a county-level city of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in southeastern Jilin province, China. It has more than 480,000 inhabitants (as of 2002) and was the capital of Balhae between 742 and 756, known at the time as "Junggyeong". During the Qing dynasty it was called Áodōng () in Chinese and Odoli in Manchu.
==Geography and climate== Dunhua is situated amongst the Changbai Mountains, its administrative area spanning 42°42′−44°30′ N latitude and 127°28′−129°13′ E longitude, reaching a maximal north–south extent of and east–west width of . Its total area of makes it, by area, the largest county-level city of the province.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dunhua” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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