Northeast China
Northeast China was historically known as Manchuria. In ancient times, this was an area of steppes and fierce nomadic tribes, outside the Great Wall built to protect China from those tribes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dalian and Harbin.
Dalian
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Dalian is the second largest city in Liaoning Province, Dongbei, China, the largest port in northern China, and a major destination for Chinese tourists.
Harbin
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Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang Province in northeast China. The city is notable for its Russian influence and the yearly Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, giving it the unofficial title Ice City.
Shenyang
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Shenyang, known as Mukden in the Manchu language, is the capital of Liaoning Province in China. Shenyang is the largest city in the northeast of China, and it is steeped in history.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Liaoning and Jilin.
Liaoning
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Liaoning is a province in the North East of China. To the west lies Hebei Province and Beijing, to the north is Inner Mongolia, in the north east the province borders with Jilin and the south east, along the Yalu River, is the border with North Korea.
Jilin
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Jilin Province forms the central part of northeast China and is part of what was once known as Manchuria. Jilin borders Heilongjiang Province to the northeast, Russia to the east, North Korea to the southeast, Liaoning to the southwest and Inner Mongolia to the northwest.
Heilongjiang
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Heilongjiang Province is in the far northeast of China. The province is famous for its fierce winters, snow and ice festivals and Russian influence.
Northeast China
- Type: Region with 107,000,000 residents
- Description: geographic region of China including Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning
- Also known as: “Dongbei”, “Manchooria”, “Manchuria”, “Northeast”, “Northeastern China”, and “Three Northeastern Provinces”
- Category: list of regions of the People’s Republic of China
- Location: China, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
46.4098° or 46° 24′ 35″ northLongitude of center
127.6152° or 127° 36′ 55″ eastPopulation
107,000,000OpenStreetMap ID
node 6636581109Wikidata ID
Q1057925
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Northeast China” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شمال شرق الصين”
- Asturian: “China del Nordeste”
- Basque: “Ipar-ekialdeko Txina”
- Belarusian: “Паўночна-Усходні Кітай”
- Belarusian: “Паўночна-Ўсходні Кітай”
- Breton: “biz Sina”
- Catalan: “Xina del nord-est”
- Central Kurdish: “باکوور و ڕۆژھەڵاتی چین”
- Chinese: “Tiong-kok Tang-pak”
- Chinese: “东三省”
- Chinese: “东北三省”
- Chinese: “中国东北”
- Chinese: “中国东北地区”
- Chinese: “中国東北地方”
- Chinese: “中國東北”
- Chinese: “中國東北地區”
- Chinese: “東三省”
- Chinese: “東北三省”
- Czech: “Severovýchodní Čína”
- Dutch: “Dongbei”
- Dutch: “Noordoost-China”
- Esperanto: “Nordorienta Ĉinio”
- Finnish: “Dongbei”
- Finnish: “Koillis-Kiina”
- Finnish: “Mantšuria”
- French: “Chine du Nord-Est”
- French: “Dongbei”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილო-აღმოსავლეთ ჩინეთი”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილო-აღმოსავლეთი ჩინეთი”
- German: “Nordostchina”
- Hebrew: “צפון-מזרח סין”
- Indonesian: “Tiongkok Timur Laut”
- Italian: “Cina del nordest”
- Italian: “Nord-est”
- Italian: “Nordest della Cina”
- Italian: “Nordest”
- Japanese: “中国東北地方”
- Japanese: “中国東北部”
- Japanese: “東北三省”
- Japanese: “東北区”
- Japanese: “東北地区”
- Korean: “동북 3성”
- Korean: “동북”
- Korean: “동북3성”
- Korean: “동북삼성”
- Korean: “둥베이 지구”
- Korean: “둥베이 지방”
- Korean: “둥베이”
- Korean: “중국 동북”
- Korean: “중국 동북부”
- Korean: “중국동북”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tiong-kok Tang-pak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dongbei”
- Norwegian: “Dongbei”
- Persian: “شمال شرق چین”
- Persian: “شمال شرقی چین”
- Polish: “Chiny Północno-Wschodnie”
- Polish: “Dongbei”
- Portuguese: “Nordeste da China”
- Portuguese: “Nordeste”
- Russian: “Дунбэй”
- Russian: “Северо-восток Китая”
- Russian: “Северо-Восточный Китай”
- Slovenian: “Severovzhodna Kitajska”
- Spanish: “China del Noreste”
- Swedish: “Dong Bei”
- Swedish: “Dongbei”
- Swedish: “Nordöstra Kina”
- Tamil: “வடகிழக்கு சீனா”
- Turkish: “Kuzeydoğu Çin”
- Ukrainian: “Дунбей”
- Ukrainian: “Північно-Східний Китай”
- Urdu: “شمال مشرقی چین”
- Uzbek: “Dunbey”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Bắc Trung Quốc”
- Western Panjabi: “شمال مشرقی چین”
- Wu Chinese: “中國東北”
- Yue Chinese: “中國東北”
- Yue Chinese: “東三省”
- Yue Chinese: “東北三省”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Northeast China”. Photo: Inkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.