Kwantung Leased Territory

/ ˌkwænˈtʊŋ /

noun

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) Also calledKuan-tung

Example Sentences

In 1875 she joined the Kurile Islands; next year the Loochoo Islands; in 1895 Formosa & the Pescadores Islands; in 1905 Kwantung Leased Territory, the South Manchuria Railway Zone, and the southern half of Russia's fishy & oily-Sakhalin Island.

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