Kwantung Leased Territory (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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  1. a strategic territory of NE China, at the S tip of the Liaodong Peninsula of Manchuria: leased forcibly by Russia in 1898; taken over by Japan in 1905; occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945 and subsequently returned to China on the condition of shared administration; made part of Liaoning province by China in 1954. Area: about 3400 sq km (1300 sq miles)
Kwantung Leased Territory (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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