Manchurian Plain

English

Proper noun

the Manchurian Plain

1. Synonym of Northeast China Plain
   • 1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map‎^[1], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:

     Among relatively recent formations are the Manchurian and North China plains, which subsided along fairly clearly defined fault lines. However, while the present rolling topography of the Manchurian plain is largely of erosional origin, the North China lowland is entirely the product of the accumulation of sediments of the Yellow River.

   • 1983 March 22, Christopher S. Wren, “2 WOODEN PLAQUES EVOKE MANCHURIA DEATH CAMP”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World‎^[3]:

     Yet here on the flat wheatlands of the Manchurian plain, some of the worst atrocities of World War II were carried out in the name of medical research at a cost of more than 3,000 victims.

   • 2014, Lee Mosol, Ancient History of Korea: Mystery Unveiled‎^[4], Xlibris, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 334:

     The sixth king (太祖大王), who was on reign for ninety-four years (r. AD 53-146) and died at the age 119, established the large territory in the Manchurian plain.

   • 2017 December 21, Foster Klug, Kim Tong-hyung, Yong Jun Chang, “The cold returns for Winter Games in mountainous Pyeongchang”, in AP News‎^[5], archived from the original on February 18, 2024‎^[6]:

     Pyeongchang sits nearly half a mile above sea level in the northeastern corner of South Korea, not too far from the border with the North. It is one of the coldest parts of the country — wind chill in February is often in single digits (Fahrenheit) — and notorious for a powerful, biting wind that gathers force as it barrels down out of Siberia and the Manchurian Plain and then across the jagged granite peaks of North Korea.