Liaodong

alternative Liaotung · alternative Liao-tung · alternative obsolete Leaotung · alternative obsolete Lyautung · alternative obsolete Leotung · alternative obsolete Leaotum

1. historicalA former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954).

   Another unit, situated in the strategic coastal city of Dairen, near Port Arthur in Liaodong Province, was called the South Manchurian Railway Sanitary Institute; large quantities of vaccines were produced there.

   2004, Daniel Barenblatt, “The Gathering Storm”, in A Plague upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 115

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   The United States deliberately concocted the assault of the Syngman Rhee gang against the Korean Democratic People’s Republic in order to expand its aggression in the East and then, on the pretext of the situation in Korea, dispatched its naval and air forces to invade the Taiwan Province of China; [and] announced that the so-called problem of Taiwan’s status should be solved by the American-controlled United Nations. Moreover, time after time, it sent its air force, which is invading Korea, to intrude into the air over the Liaodong Province of China, strafing and bombing; and sent its naval forces, which are invading Korea, to bombard Chinese merchant ships on the high seas.

   1993 [1950 November], “Appendix”, in Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War (Studies in International Security and Arms Control), Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, translation of "Fight for the Consolidation and Development of the Chinese People's Victory", China Monthly Review, November 1950, p. 104, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 274

2. A region of Liaoning, China.

   Bohai Sea is on the northeastern coast of China, bounded by Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas, so pollution there is slow to wash out to the ocean, exacerbating damage to local marine life.

   2009 June 22, “Oil slicks poisoning China's Bohai Sea - official”, in Emma Graham-Harrison, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 May 2022, Oil Report