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 square kilometers. The site of the eastern capital of the Balhae Kingdom between 785 and 793, Donggyeong, was located here.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Hunchun
Settlement.settlement_type: County-level city
Settlement.image_skyline: Hunchun Yanhe Xijie.jpg
Settlement.image_size: 250
Settlement.image_caption: A street in Hunchun, with signage in Chinese, Korean, and Russian
Settlement.image_map: ChinaYanbianHunchun.png
Settlement.map_caption: Hunchun in Yanbian
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name: People's Republic of China
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Province
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Jilin
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Prefecture
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Yanbian
Settlement.seat: Xin'an Subdistrict
Settlement.seat_type: Seat
Settlement.area_total_km2: 5145.4
Settlement.area_urban_km2: 125.39
Settlement.population_total: 271000

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Wikidata facts

Official name: 珲春县
Population: 239359
Area: 5141.29
Elevation: 41
Image: Hunch007.jpg

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postal code: 133300
Commons category: Hunchun

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The city's name Hunchun comes from Huncun in Manchu language (). The city and the village Fangchuan is located near the point of junction of the borders of China, Russia, and North Korea; provided with an observation platform, it is a popular tourist attraction.