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Dandong

Dandong is a coastal prefecture-level city in southeastern , in the of China. It is the largest Chinese border city, facing , , across the Yalu River, which demarcates the Sino-North Korean border.
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  • Type: City with 2,190,000 residents
  • Description: prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China
  • Also known as: “An-tung-hsien”, “An-tung-shih”, “Antung”, “Dandong City”, “Sha-ho-ch’en”, “Sha-ho-tzu”, “Tan-tung-shih”, and “安东市”
  • Historically known as: “Andong”
Photo: Jacky Lee, CC BY 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge and Dandong.

Bridge
Photo: xue siyang (df45086), CC BY-SA 3.0.
The , or China–North Korea Friendship Bridge, is a bridge across the Yalu or Amnok River on the China–North Korea border. It connects the cities of Dandong in and of , by railway and roadway but pedestrians are not allowed to cross between either side.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
railway station is a railway station located in , , , . It is the terminus of the Shenyang–Dandong railway, the Dandong–Dalian intercity railway, and the Shenyang–Dandong intercity railway.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Sinŭiju Ch'ŏngnyŏn station, is a railway station in Yŏkchŏn-dong, , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sinuiju and Zhenzhu.

Photo: ZHart, CC0.
Sinŭiju is a city in which faces Dandong, , China, across the international border of the Yalu River. It is the capital of .

Suburb
Subdistrict is a subdistrict in , Dandong, , . As of 2020, it administers the following four residential communities and one village:…

Dandong

Latitude
40.1238° or 40° 7′ 26″ north
Longitude
124.3822° or 124° 22′ 56″ east
Population
2,190,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
DDG
United Nations Location Code
CN DDZ
Open location code
8QG649FJ+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 244078242
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2037886
Wiki­data ID
Q75110
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Dandong” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dandong”
  • Arabic: “داندونغ”
  • Armenian: “Դանդուն”
  • Asturian: “Dandong”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dandun”
  • Basque: “Dandong”
  • Belarusian: “Даньдун”
  • Bengali: “তান্ডং”
  • Breton: “Dandong”
  • Bulgarian: “Дандун”
  • Catalan: “Dandong”
  • Cebuano: “Dandong”
  • Chinese: “Dāndōng Shì”
  • Chinese: “Tan-tong-chhī”
  • Chinese: “丹东”
  • Chinese: “丹东市”
  • Chinese: “丹東”
  • Chinese: “丹東市”
  • Czech: “Tan-tung”
  • Danish: “Dandong”
  • Dutch: “Dandong”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “داندونج”
  • Esperanto: “Dandong”
  • Estonian: “Dandong Shi”
  • Finnish: “Dandong”
  • French: “Dandong”
  • Galician: “Dandong - 丹东”
  • Galician: “Dandong”
  • Gan Chinese: “丹东市”
  • Georgian: “დანდუნი”
  • German: “Dandong”
  • Greek: “Ταντούνγκ”
  • Gujarati: “ડેન્ડૉંગ”
  • Hebrew: “דאנדונג”
  • Hebrew: “דנדונג”
  • Hindi: “डानडोंग”
  • Hindi: “डेन्डोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Tantung”
  • Indonesian: “Dandong”
  • Irish: “Dandong”
  • Italian: “Dandong”
  • Japanese: “丹東市”
  • Kannada: “ದಾಂಡೋಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Даньдун”
  • Kikuyu: “Dandong”
  • Korean: “단둥 시”
  • Korean: “단둥시”
  • Kurdish: “Dandong”
  • Latvian: “Dandonga”
  • Lithuanian: “Dandongas”
  • Malagasy: “Dandong”
  • Malay: “Dandong”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാൻ‌ദോങ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാൻദോങ്”
  • Marathi: “डॅनडोंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Dăng-dŭng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tan-tong-chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dandong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Dandong”
  • Norwegian: “Dandong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dandong”
  • Ossetian: “Даньдун”
  • Persian: “داندونگ”
  • Polish: “Dandong”
  • Portuguese: “Dandong”
  • Romanian: “Dandong”
  • Russian: “Даньдун”
  • Scots: “Dandong”
  • Serbian: “Дандунг”
  • Sinhala: “ඩැන්ඩොන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Dandong”
  • Spanish: “Dandong”
  • Swedish: “Dandong”
  • Tamil: “டான்டோங்”
  • Telugu: “డాండోంగ్”
  • Thai: “ตานตง”
  • Turkish: “Dandong”
  • Ukrainian: “Даньдун”
  • Urdu: “داندونگ”
  • Venetian: “Dandong”
  • Vietnamese: “Đan Đông”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dandong”
  • Welsh: “Dandong”
  • Wu Chinese: “丹东市”
  • Yue Chinese: “丹東”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dandong”. Photo: kevinforgard, CC BY 2.0.