Shenyang

[ shuhn-yahng ]

noun

, Pinyin, Wade-Giles.

1. a city in and the capital of Liaoning province, in northeastern China: cultural capital of Manchuria; battle 1905.

Shenyang

/ ˈʃɛnˈjæŋ /

noun

1. a walled city in NE China in S Manchuria, capital of Liaoning province: capital of the Manchu dynasty from 1644–1912; seized by the Japanese in 1931. Pop: 4 916 000 (2005 est) Former nameMukden

Example Sentences

Vast swathes of farmland and mined hills surround the main city of Shenyang.

From BBC

His parents, proud workers at a tractor factory in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, stopped going to work, and the family moved into an empty factory storage room to save money on rent.

From New York Times

King then flew from there to Shenyang, China, then on to Osan Air Force Base in South Korea, before continuing his voyage back to the United States.

From Reuters

Shenyang is the capital of Liaoning Province, one of three large provinces in the northeast that constitute the cradle of China’s heavy industry.

From New York Times

Last week, three cities - Nanjing in eastern Jiangsu province and Dalian and Shenyang in northeastern Liaoning province - became the first cities to eliminate curbs on home buying.

From Reuters