Green Ukraine, also called Zelenyi Klyn or Zakytaishchyna, is a historical Ukrainian name for the land in the Russian Far East between the Amur River and the Pacific Ocean, an area that roughly matches Outer Manchuria. The name comes from the large Ukrainian population that settled there as the Russian Empire expanded eastward. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 the area was projected as a country under the name Transcathay. Following the creation of the Bolshevik Far Eastern Republic on 6 April 1920, districts with an ethnic Ukrainian majority tried to secede and set up Green Ukraine as an ethnostate, but the movement quickly failed. Geographically the area borders present-day North Korea, near the special city of Rason, and the Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang and Jilin.
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1. Green Ukraine (Wikipedia)
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is a historical Ukrainian name for the land in the Russian Far East
On Continent: Asia, Lead, first paragraph [on-continent]
an area roughly corresponding to Outer Manchuria
Part Of: Russia, Lead, first paragraph [part-of]
the land in the Russian Far East area between the Amur River and the Pacific Ocean
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