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Revision as of 21:51, 5 June 2002 by Roadrunner (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Manchuria is a region (ca. 1,550,000 sq. km) in north-eastern China. The literal translation of Manchuria in Chinese is Man-chou, but Chinese never refer to the region as that name which is considered slightly offensive, when used in Chinese, because of its separatist connotations and because it invokes the memory of the Japanese occupation and puppet state of Manchukuo.
Instead, Chinese almost universally refer to the region as the Northeast.
The region borders Mongolia in the west, Russia in the north and North Korea in the east. Since 1956 it has been comprised of the Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning provinces.
Geography
The region is the original homeland of the Manchu rules of China during the Ming and Qing dynasty. The region was separated from China proper by the willow palisade a ditch and embankment planted with willows intended to keep the Manchus out during the Ming dynasty and intended to keep Han Chinese out of Manchuria during the Qing dynasty.