Manchuria is the historical and geographic name for the region of Northeast Asia now comprising the three northeastern provinces of China, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning, and sometimes parts of eastern Inner Mongolia. Bordered by Russia's Far East and Korea, it was the homeland of the Manchu people who founded China's Qing dynasty, and later became a heavily industrialized and contested territory in the twentieth century, briefly ruled as the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.
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Manchuria is a historical region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China and parts of the modern-day Russian Far East south of the Uda River and the Tukuringra-Dzhagdy ranges.
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