Manchurian Plain

Proper noun

the Manchurian Plain

1. Synonym of Northeast China Plain.
   • 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...1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10
   • 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.1983 March 22, Christopher S. Wren, “2 WOODEN PLAQUES EVOKE MANCHURIA DEATH CAMP”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 May 2015, World

   Synonyms:

   Northeast China Plain