Jilin Province - Jilin

Japanese: 吉林[省] - きつりん

A province in northeastern China. Its abbreviated name is Ji. It borders Russia's Primorsky Krai and Korea to the southeast, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the west. Its capital is Changchun. The Changbai Mountains stretch across the southeast, and the Second Songhua River and Tumen River basins form fertile plains. The climate is continental and cold. A well-developed railway network includes Changda, Changbin, Changbai, and Changtu, and water transportation is often used outside of the freezing season. It is an important grain-producing region (wheat, sorghum, soybeans), where mechanized agriculture is quite widespread. It is rich in timber, marten furs, ginseng, various medicinal materials, and mineral resources such as coal, gold, silver, and copper, and large-scale hydroelectric power generation from the Fengman Dam on the Songhua River and other facilities is the foundation that supports heavy industry in northeastern China. Changchun's automobile and machinery industries and Jilin's chemical industry are large in scale. There are many Korean immigrants in the Yanji area in the east, which forms the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, but there are also many Manchu, Hui and Mongolian peoples in the province. The area is 187,400 ^km2 . The population is 27.02 million (2014).
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Japanese:

中国，東北地区の省。簡称は吉。南東はロシア沿海州と朝鮮，西は内モンゴル自治区に接する。省都は長春。南東部は長白山脈が連なり，第二松花江・図們江(ともんこう)（豆満江）流域は肥沃な平野をなす。気候は大陸性で寒冷。長大，長浜，長白，長図などの鉄路網が発達し，結氷期以外は水運がよく利用される。重要な穀倉地帯（小麦，コーリャン，ダイズ）で機械化農業がかなり普及しており，木材，テンの毛皮，チョウセンニンジン，各種薬材および石炭・金・銀・銅などの鉱産資源に富み，松花江の豊満ダムなどによる大規模な水力発電は東北の重工業を支える基礎となっている。長春の自動車・機械工業，吉林の化学工業は規模が大。東部の延吉一帯には朝鮮人移民が多く延辺朝鮮族自治州をなすが，満族，回族，モンゴル族も本省には多い。18万7400km²。2702万人（2014）。
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