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Tantung

Tantung is the alternative form of Dandong.

Meaning of Dandong

Proper noun

Dandong

  1. A prefecture-level city of Liaoning, China, across the Yalu River from Sinuiju, North Pyongan, North Korea.
    • Another 40km south of Samjiyon is the Amnok riverbank city of Hyesan, opposite China, worth visiting for another China/DPRK comparison that’s also a favourite for visitors to Dandong (see page 205).2008, Robert Willoughby, “Mt Paektu”, in North Korea (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 201
    Synonyms:
    Andong, An-tung, Antung

Origin of Tantung

1965, from Mandarin 丹東 /丹东 (Dāndōng), Wade–Giles romanization: Tan¹-tung¹.

Questions about Tantung

What is Tantung the alternative form of?
Tantung is the alternative form of Dandong.

Words near Tantung in the dictionary

  1. tantrums
  2. tantrumy
  3. tants
  4. tantulocarid
  5. tantulocarids
  6. Tantung
  7. tantuni
  8. tantunis
  9. Tantura
  10. tanty
  11. tantō

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tantung (page history and authors); Dandong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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