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The Korean peninsula is located in the northern
portion of Asia, east of the Chinese provinces of Jilin and Liaoning (also
known as Manchuria), and just north of Japan.
The Korean peninsula is about 300 km wide, and about 1000 km long,
with a land-locked border with China and a fifteen mile stretch of Russia that is formed by the Amnokkang and Tuman-Gang Rivers,
and bounded on the east by the East Sea, the north by the
Korea Bay, and the south by the Yellow Sea.
As a result, there are significant climatic differences along the
north-south axis, with the southern portion generally being warmer.
Eastern China and the Japanese islands of Honshu and Kyushu are less than 200
miles from Korea, giving Korea a geographical position as the transmitter of
Chinese culture to the Japanese. As
a result of communication through Korea, Japan has received both Confuscianism and Buddhism.
At
present, the Korean peninsula is divided between the Democratic Republic of Korea
in the South (capital: Seoul) and the People's Republic of Korea in the
North (capital: Pyongyang).
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