Yanbian
Yanbian is an autonomous prefecture in Jilin province of China, next to the border with North Korea and Russia. It is home to the largest ethnic Korean community outside Korea.
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Yanbian
- Type: Region with 2,270,000 residents
- Description: autonomous prefecture in Jilin Province, China
- Also known as: “Autonomer Bezirk Yanbian der Koreaner”, “Châu tự trị dân tộc Triều Tiên Diên Biên”, “Janbian”, “Korean Autonomous Area”, “Korejská autonomní prefektura Jen-pien”, “Korejska avtonomna prefektura Janbian”, “Prefectura autonoma coreana de Yanbian”, “Prefecture autonome coreenne de Yanbian”, “Yanbian Autonome Prefectuur”, “Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture”, “Yen-pien Autonomous Area”, “Yen-pien Korean Autonomous Chou”, “Yen-pien Korean Autonomous District”, “Yen-pien-chao-hsien-tsu Tzu-chih-chou”, “หยันเปียน”, “เหยียนเปียน”, “연변”, “연변 조선족 자치주”, “연변조선족자치주”, “옌벤 조선족 자치주”, “옌볜”, “옌볜조선족자치주”, “조선족 자치주”, “ヨンビョン”, “延边州”, and “延辺朝鮮族自治区”
- Categories: autonomous prefecture and locality
- Location: Jilin, Northeast China, China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
43.1° or 43° 6′ north
Longitude of center
129.2° or 129° 12′ east
Population
2,270,000
Elevation
697 metres (2,287 feet)
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yanbian” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يانبيان”
- Basque: “Yanbian Korear Prefektura autonomoa”
- Catalan: “Prefectura autònoma coreana de Yanbian”
- Cebuano: “Yanbian Chaoxianzu Zizhizhou”
- Chinese: “Yánbiān Zhōu”
- Chinese: “延边”
- Chinese: “延边朝鲜族自治州”
- Chinese: “延邊朝鮮族自治州”
- Czech: “Jen-pien”
- Danish: “Yanbian”
- Dutch: “Autonome Koreaanse Prefectuur Yanbian”
- Esperanto: “Korea Aŭtonoma Prefektujo Janbiano”
- Estonian: “Yanbiani Korea autonoomne ringkond”
- Finnish: “Yanbianin korealaisten autonominen prefektuuri”
- French: “préfecture autonome coréenne de Yanbian”
- French: “Préfecture autonome coréenne de Yanbian”
- Gan Chinese: “延边朝鲜族自治州”
- German: “Yanbian”
- Greek: “Αυτόνομη Κορεατική Διοικητική Περιφέρεια της Γιάνμπιαν”
- Hebrew: “הנציבות האוטונומית הקוריאנית ינביין”
- Indonesian: “Prefektur Otonom Korea Yanbian”
- Italian: “prefettura autonoma coreana di Yanbian”
- Italian: “Prefettura autonoma coreana di Yanbian”
- Japanese: “延辺州”
- Japanese: “延辺朝鮮族自治州”
- Korean: “옌볜 조선족 자치주”
- Literary Chinese: “延邊州”
- Literary Chinese: “延邊朝鮮族自治州”
- Malagasy: “Prefektiora mahaleotena koreanin’i Yanbian”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Iòng-biĕng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Iân-pian Tiâu-sián-cho̍k Chū-tī-chiu”
- Mongolian: “Яньбянь тойрог”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yanbian”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Yanbian”
- Norwegian: “Yanbian”
- Ossetian: “Яньбянь-Корейаг автономон зылд”
- Persian: “ولایت خودمختار یانبیان کرهای”
- Polish: “Yanbian”
- Portuguese: “Prefeitura autônoma coreana de Yanbian”
- Portuguese: “Prefeitura Autônoma de Yanbian”
- Russian: “Яньбянь-Корейский автономный округ”
- Russian: “Яньбянь-Корейский АО”
- Slovenian: “Avtonomna korejska prefektura Janbian”
- Spanish: “Prefectura autónoma coreana de Yanbian”
- Swedish: “Yanbian”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปกครองตนเองชนชาติเกาหลี หยันเปียน”
- Thai: “จังหวัดปกครองตนเองชนชาติเกาหลีหยันเปียน”
- Turkish: “Yanbian Kore Özerk İli”
- Turkish: “Yanbian”
- Uighur: “يەنبيەن چاۋشيەنزۇ ئاپتونوم ئوبلاستى”
- Ukrainian: “Яньбянь-Корейська автономна префектура”
- Ukrainian: “Яньбянь”
- Urdu: “یانبیان کوریائی خودمختار پریفیکچر”
- Urdu: “ینبیاں کوریا اوٹونوموس پرفکترے”
- Vietnamese: “Diên Biên”
- Western Frisian: “Yanbian”
- Wu Chinese: “延边朝鲜族自治州”
- Yue Chinese: “延邊”
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