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 | | Manchuria was the traditional homeland of the Xianbei, the Khitan and the Jurchen, who built several dynasties in both Manchuria and China_proper, and most recently and famously the Manchus, who lent their name to the region and, in the 17th_century, conquered and ruled China until the collapse of the Qing_Dynasty in 1911. |
 | | Manchuria borders Mongolia in the west, Siberia in the north, China_proper to the south and North_Korea in the east. |
 | | Prior to World War II, Manchuria was colonized by the Japanese, and Manchukuo was used as a base to invade China, an expensive action (in terms of the damage to men, matériel and political integrity) that was as costly to Japan as the invasion of Russia was to Nazi_Germany, and for the same reasons. |
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