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Northeast China
Northeast China
, historically also known as
Manchuria
, is a geographical
region of China
. It consists specifically of the three provinces of
Liaoning
,
Jilin
and
Heilongjiang
, collectively referred as the
Three Northeastern Provinces
(东北三省,
Dōngběi sānshěng
), but broadly also encompasses the eastern part of
Inner Mongolia
. The region is separated from
Far Eastern
Russia
to the north largely by the
Amur
,
Argun
and
Ussuri
rivers, from
North Korea
to the south by the
Yalu River
and
Tumen River
, and from the
Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
to the west by the
Greater Khingan
Range. The heartland of the region is the
Northeast China Plain
.
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