Yanji
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Yanji (; Korean: Yŏn'gil; alternately romanized as Yenki or Yenji) is a county-level city in the east of China's Jilin Province, and is the seat of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Yanji City is located in the eastern part of Jilin Province. It is the seat of the government of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and the political, economic and cultural center of the entire autonomous prefecture. Its population is approximately 400,000 of which a significant portion is ethnic Korean. Yanji is a busy hub of transport and trade between China and North Korea. The city is home to Yanbian
Key facts
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- Yŏn'gil
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- Yanji
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- County-level city
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- Yanji in Yanbian
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- Jilin
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- Location of Yanji in Jilin Province
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- Country
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- China
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- Province
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- Jilin
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- Autonomous prefecture
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- Yanbian
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- Township-level divisions
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- 6 subdistricts3 towns
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- Municipal seat
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- Henan Subdistrict
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county-level city
- Official name
- 연길시
- Country
- Manchukuo
- Population
- 686136
- Area
- 1722.24
- Elevation
- 179
- Time zone
- UTC+08:00
- Capital of
- Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture
- Official website
- yanji.gov.cn
- Image
- Yanji, China.jpg
- Dialing code
- 433
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- Commons category
- Yanji
- postal code
- 133000
- topic's main category
- Category:Yanji
- native label
- 연길
- P12749
- Antara Mali
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Yanji (; Korean: Yŏn'gil; alternately romanized as Yenki or Yenji) is a county-level city in the east of China's Jilin Province, and is the seat of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Yanji City is located in the eastern part of Jilin Province. It is the seat of the government of Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and the political, economic and cultural center of the entire autonomous prefecture. Its population is approximately 400,000 of which a significant portion is ethnic Korean. Yanji is a busy hub of transport and trade between China and North Korea. The city is home to Yanbian University, a comprehensive university and the only Project 211 university in Yanji.
==History== Yanji and its environs were largely unpopulated until the 1800s when Qing dynasty rulers of China began to encourage migration there from China proper as part of its Chuang Guandong policy to populate Manchuria in an effort to stem encroaching Russian expansion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Yanji” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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