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Dalian
Dalian ( ) is a major prefecture-level, sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang and Harbin). Located on the southern tip of the Liaodong peninsula, it is the southernmost city in both Liaoning and the entire Northeast. Dalian borders the prefectural cities of Yingkou and Anshan to the north and Dandong to the northeast, and also shares maritime boundaries with Qinhuangdao and Huludao across the Liaodong Bay to the w
Liaodong Peninsula
peninsula
Soviet invasion of Manchuria
1945 invasion; part of the Soviet–Japanese War of World War II
Kwantung Army
group of the Imperial Japanese Army from 1919 to 1945
Kwantung Leased Territory
Japanese possession in Northeastern China until the end of World War II
South Manchuria Railway
1906–1945 Japanese company in China
Triple Intervention
diplomatic intervention by Russia, Germany, and France on 23 April 1895 over the terms of the Treaty of Shimonoseki signed between Japan and the Qing dynasty
South Manchuria Railway Zone
area of Japanese extraterritorial rights in northeast China in 1937