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Shen⋅yang

[shuhn-yahng]
–noun Pinyin, Wade-Giles.
a city in and the capital of Liaoning province, in NE China: cultural capital of Manchuria; battle 1905. 3,000,000.
Formerly, Fengtien, Mukden.

Liao⋅ning

[lyou-ning]
–noun
Pinyin, Wade-Giles. a province in NE China. 29,500,000; 58,301 sq. mi. (151,000 sq. km). Capital: Shenyang.
Formerly, Fengtien.
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Shen·yang   (shŭn'yäng')   
A city of northeast China east-northeast of Beijing. The capital of Liaoning province, it was the site of the so-called Mukden, or Manchurian, Incident (1931), in which the Japanese army used an explosion on the railroad north of the city as a pretext to occupy Manchuria. Population: 3,980,000.
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