Liaoning
name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A province in northeastern China. Capital: Shenyang.
"Name of Fengtien province changed to Liaoning."
Example
More examples"The Yalu River is located on the China–North Korea border and is an important boundary river between Liaoning Province in China and North Korea."
Etymology
c. 1929 From Wade–Giles romanization and/or Postal Romanization, from Mandarin 遼寧 /辽宁 (Liáoníng, literally “Tranquil Liao”); later reinforced by Hanyu Pinyin, from the name of the main river of the area. The name was restored to the area in 1954 upon the merging of the Liaoxi (“West Liao”) and Liaodong (“East Liao”) provinces.
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