Liaodong

Proper noun

Liaodong

1. (historical) A former province in northeast China (from 1949 to 1954).
   • 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...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...
   • 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
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