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Fangchuan

Syllables: Fang·chuan

Fangchuan proper noun: a village in Jingxin, Hunchun, Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint area.

Proper noun

Fangchuan

  1. A village in Jingxin, Hunchun, Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint area.
    • A ride along the Chinese shore of the Tumen River illustrated its potential for development. From the city of Tumen, which was given a rail link in 1993, all the way to Fangchuan in the southern appendix of the municipality, there lies on the Chinese side a 100-kilometer-long strip of meadow and...1997 [1996], Willem van Kemenade, translated by Diane Webb, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Inc., New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 318
    • The Chinese border town of Fangchuan, the easternmost point of China’s land border along the Tumen River, is only 2 km from the North Korean border train station at Doo-Man River Lee (an equivalent of a township). The rail and land crossings connect Hunchun conveniently with the three North Korean...2005, Xiangming Chen, As Borders Bend: Transnational Spaces on the Pacific Rim, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 179

Examples of Fangchuan in a sentence

  • The best excuse to take such a ride is Fangchuan, a tiny town at the end of a needle-thin strip of Chinese territory between North Korea and Russia, and China's preeminent border-viewing spot.2012, Simon Foster, Candice Lee, Jen Lin-Liu, Beth Reiber, Tini Tran, Lee Wing-sze, Christopher D. Winnan, Frommer's China (Frommer's), 5th...
  • Parts of Russia, China and North Korea are seen from a tower in Fangchuan, Hunchun, China, on Aug. 7, 2015.2015 October 15, Anna Fifield, “A remote corner of China wants access to the sea. The obstacle is North Korea.”, in The Washington Post...

Origin of Fangchuan

From the Mandarin 防川 (Fángchuān).

Questions about Fangchuan

What does Fangchuan mean?
Fangchuan means a village in Jingxin, Hunchun, Yanbian prefecture, Jilin, China, near the China–North Korea–Russia tripoint area.
How do you use Fangchuan in a sentence?
The best excuse to take such a ride is Fangchuan, a tiny town at the end of a needle-thin strip of Chinese territory between North Korea and Russia, and China's preeminent border-viewing spot.
What part of speech is Fangchuan?
Fangchuan is a proper noun.

Words near Fangchuan in the dictionary

  1. fangboy
  2. fangboys
  3. Fangcheng
  4. Fangchenggang
  5. fangchinoline
  6. Fangchuan
  7. fangdom
  8. fanged
  9. fanged it
  10. fanger
  11. fangers

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