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Tumen
[ ty-ղ ]
noun
- a river in East Asia, flowing northeast along the China–North Korea border and then southeast along the border between China and Russia to the Sea of Japan. About 325 miles (525 km) long.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of Tumen1
From Mongolian or Manchu ü “ten thousand, myriad,” referring to the number of the river's sources
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Construction of the bridge - set to span the Tumen river in the country's northeast - began on Wednesday.
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Close by is the Tumen river that gently cuts through all three countries.
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In the early 1960s it was the Chinese who fled famine across the shallow Tumen river.
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Soon, North Korean refugees began wading through an often freezing Tumen river at the risk of being shot dead to escape hunger, poverty and repression.
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Across the Tumen river in Fangchuan, a North Korean soldier watches us, while we watch him.
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