River
Tumen River
549 km from source to mouth · North Korea, China and Russia.
North Korea, China and RussiaFlows into Sea of Japan1st longest in North Korea
In numbers
Length
549km
Average flow
180m³/s
Basin
41,200km²
Drop
1,222m
from 1,222 m to 0 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
549 km of river and 15 stops on the way: 6 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,222 m
- 140 kmMusan-ŭp21,739 people
- 258 kmHoeryŏng43,831 people
- 344 kmNamyang22,218 people
- 345 kmTumen Border Bridge
- 345 kmTumen78,719 people
- 345 kmNamyang-nodongjagu65,956 people
- 350 kmGaya Rivertributary
- 368 kmOnsŏng19,806 people
- 440 kmHunchun Rivertributary
- 521 kmHyŏndam-ji1.1 km²
- 524 kmLake Khasan2.0 km²
- 527 kmLotos3.0 km²
- 528 kmKorea–Russia Friendship Bridge
- 529 kmYakov Novichenko Bridge
- 542 kmOzero Lebedinoye (lanaw nga asin sa Rusya, Primorskiy Kray, lat 42,32, long 130,70)1.5 km²
- 549 kmSea of Japanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in China, Russia and North Korea
At the mouth it carries 181 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 14 seconds. It drops from 1,222 m to 0 m, 2.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 41,200 km², about the size of CH. 2.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. Its dams hold back little of its water (2.1% of a year's flow).
Where to start
- TumenLargest city on its banks · 78,719 people
- Yanji Chaoyangchuan Airport (YNJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 33 km from the city
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to July and SeptemberThe best months to visit
Tumen River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from December to March. Freezing months (average below −4 °C): from December to February. Best months to visit: from June to July and September.
From about 32 m³/s in the lowest month to 520 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Tumen River: the basin in numbers
33,170 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 79/km²people per km²
- 670maverage altitude of the basin
- 661mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 2.9°Caverage air temperature
- 15%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 1%permafrost
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 84% Forest
- 11% Cropland
- 3% Pasture
- 3% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Tumen River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 1Ferry piers
- 1Marinas
- 3River beaches
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Tumen River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
4lakes on its wayLakeyas
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
3islands off the mouthIslandyas
Lakes and reservoirs (4)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Hyŏndam-jikm 4601.1km²
- Lake Khasankm 4632.0km²
- Lotoskm 4663.0km²
- Ozero Lebedinoye (lanaw nga asin sa Rusya, Primorskiy Kray, lat 42,32, long 130,70)km 4791.5km²
Lakeyas is coming soonOpen Lakeyas ↗
Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Jong-il Peak12 km away1,798m
- Kanbaek-san8.7 km away
- Tijin Shan15 km away
- Pai Yen12 km away
Islands off the mouth (3)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Furugelm Island27 km away1.9km²
- Vera Island21 km away0.0km²
- Bipa Island22 km away
Islandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Tumen River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (5)
Also: Gaya River, Hunchun River, Wujiazi Chuan, Lebedinaya, Sŏdu-su
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q55499) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas, Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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