1) Yalu. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Bay of Korea at Dandong; forms part of the China-North Korea border. In places it is navigable for shallow-draft vessels, but its chief commercial use is for floating...
2) Sinuiju. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...North Korea, on the Yellow Sea at the mouth of the Yalu River. A main northern gateway to Korea, it developed from a logging center into a port and rail terminus....
3) Supung. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Yalu River, on the border between North Korea and Liaoning prov., NE China. One of the largest dams in Asia (525 ft/160 m high and 2,800 ft/853 m long), it was built...
4) Dandong. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Yalu River, opposite Korea. It is a port, connected by rail with Shenyang (Mukden) and with Sinuiju in North Korea. The Supung Dam on the Yalu supplies power for...
5) Antung. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The capital was Tonghua. It was bordered on the SE by the Yalu River, which separated it from Korea, and by the Bay of Korea. A part of Manchuria, it was included...
6) Changbai. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...China and partly in North Korea; Baitou Shan (9,003 ft/2,744 m) is the highest peak. The Changbai range is economically important for timber and coal deposits. The...
7) Korea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Chosen or Tyosen, historic region (85,049 sq mi/220,277 sq km), E Asia. A peninsula, 600 mi (966 km) long, Korea separates the Yellow Sea (and Korea Bay, a northern...
8) Manchuria. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Manchuria is separated from Russia largely by the Amur, Argun, and Ussuri rivers, from North Korea by the Yalu and Tumen rivers, and from Mongolia by the Da Hinggan...
9) Yellow Sea. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Pacific Ocean, between China and Korea. It has a maximum depth of 500 ft (152 m). Bohai, Korea Bay, and the Liaodong Gulf are its major inlets. The Huang He, Huai,...
10) Clark, Mark Wayne. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Mark Wayne, 1896-1984, U.S. general, b. Madison Barracks, N.Y. A West Point graduate, he served as a captain in World War I and rose to become (1942) army ground...
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