Liaodong Peninsula

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Liaodong Peninsula

or Liao-tung Peninsula

Peninsula, extending from the southern coastline of Liaoning province, northeastern China. It partly separates the Bo Hai (Gulf of Chihli) on the west from Korea Bay on the east. It forms part of a mountain belt that continues in the Changbai Mountains; on the peninsula the range is known as the Qian Mountains. Near the southern tip of the peninsula lies the port of Dalian.

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Under the treaty that resulted, Russia yielded to Japan the Liaodong peninsula lease, the rail line to Port Arthur and Dairen, and southern Sakhalin, but retained the rest of the CER and a sphere of influence in northern Manchuria--until evicted completely in 1931.

The sick man of asia: Russia's endangered Far East by Menon, Rajan / The National Interest

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