Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County


Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County, is a county of eastern Liaoning province, China, bordering North Korea to the southeast and Jilin in the northeast. It is under the administration of Dandong City, the centre of which lies to the southwest, and is served by China National Highway 201. In Kuandian is the Hushan Great Wall, the most easterly section of the Great Wall of China. A short reconstruction of the wall is open to tourists. The area has an abandoned airstrip that was used by the Chinese airforce during the Korean War.

Administrative divisions

There are 19 towns, two townships and one ethnic township in the county.
Towns:
Townships:
Kuandian occupies the eastern half of Dandong City and is situated among the Changbai Mountains, on the northwest bank of middle-lower reaches of the Yalu River, across which it borders the North Korean provinces of North Pyongan and Chagang. Domestically, it borders Ji'an to the northeast, Fengcheng to the west, Benxi to the northwest, and Huanren County to the north. It has a total area of and of the Sino-Korean border.
Kuandian has a monsoon-influenced humid continental climate characterised by very warm, humid summers, due to the monsoon, and long, cold, and very dry winters, due to the Siberian anticyclone. The four seasons here are distinctive. A majority of the annual rainfall occurs in July and August. The monthly 24-hour average temperatures ranges from in January to in July, while the annual mean is. Due to the mountainous location, temperatures tend to be cooler, and summer rainfall is heavier. The average relative humidity is 70%, and the frost-free period is 140 days.