Dandong
Dandong, is a city in Liaoning Province, China, right next to the North Korean border. The quiet riverside city is most famous for the pockmarked Yalu River Bridge spanning distressingly over the river.
- Type: City with 2,190,000 residents
- Description: prefecture-level city in Liaoning, China
- Also known as: “An-tung-hsien”, “An-tung-shih”, “Antung”, “Sha-ho-ch’en”, “Sha-ho-tzu”, “Tan-tung-shih”, “דנדונג”, “ഡാൻദോങ്”, and “安东市”
- Historically known as: “Andong”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Sino-Korean Friendship Bridge and Dandong.
Dandong
Railway station
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sinuiju and Zhenzhu.
Dandong
- Categories: prefecture-level city of China, border city, big city, and locality
- Location: Eastern Hills, Liaoning, Northeast China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
UN/LOCODE
CN DDZ
Open location code
8QG649FJ+GV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “丹东”
- Chinese: “丹东市”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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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