Yanbian

• (from Wade–Giles) Yenpien, Yen-pien, Yen-Pien

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 延邊／延边 (Yánbiān).

Yanbian

1. A Korean autonomous prefecture in Jilin, China.
   • 1975, “The National Minority Languages of China”, in Winfred P. Lehmann, editor, Language and Linguistics in the People's Republic of China‎, University of Texas Press, →ISBN, LCCN 75-3572, OCLC 462849192, page 124:

     Korean is spoken by a sizable minority in the North-eastern provinces. Yet forty-six percent of all Koreans in China, 540,000 people, live in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous District along the Tumen river.

   • 2014, Eimer, David, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China‎, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, OCLC 937859024, OL 26186017M, page 254:

     There are plenty of soldiers in the surrounding Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the official Chinese name for the region, mounting guard along the nearby border with the DPRK.[...]Yanbian, Yanji apart, is one of the least densely populated regions of China outside the high plateau of Tibet and the deserts of Xinjiang.

   • 2019 June 17, “China says suspected blast caused minor quake near N. Korea”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 12 July 2022:

     China Earthquake Networks Center said Monday the magnitude 1.3 earthquake occurred in the evening in Hunchun. The city is in northeastern Jilin province’s Yanbian prefecture, known for its large ethnic Korean population, and borders North Korea and Russia.

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• (from Korean) Yeonbyeon

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 鹽邊／盐边 (Yánbiān).

Yanbian

1. A county of Panzhihua, Sichuan, China.