Editing Manchuria (section)

== Boundaries ==
[[File:Amurrivermap.png|thumb|The [[drainage basin]] of the [[Amur|Amur River]], also showing the island of [[Sakhalin]] in the east, apart to the west towards Mongolia, roughly corresponds to the geographical area of the historic land of the Manchu people]]
Manchuria is now most often associated with the three [[provinces of China|Chinese provinces]] of [[Heilongjiang]], [[Jilin]], and [[Liaoning]].<ref>{{ cite journal
| title =The Power of Imagination: Whose Northeast and Whose Manchuria?
| author = Li Narangoa
| journal = Inner Asia
| volume=  4 | number= 1
| year = 2002
| pages = 3–25
| jstor = 23615422
| publisher = Brill
}}</ref>{{rp|3}}{{refn|This is the sense used, e.g., in the [[World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Brummitt |first=R.K. |year=2001 |title=World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions: Edition 2 |publisher=International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases For Plant Sciences (TDWG) |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf |access-date=2006-11-27 |p=12 |archive-date=25 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125135239/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/TDWG_geo2.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} The former Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo further included the prefectures of [[Chengde]] (now in [[Hebei]]), and [[Hulunbuir]], [[Hinggan League|Hinggan]], [[Tongliao]], and [[Chifeng]] (now in [[Inner Mongolia]]). The region of the Qing dynasty referenced as Manchuria originally further included [[Primorskiy Kray]], the [[Jewish Autonomous Oblast]], the southern parts of [[Amur Oblast]] and [[Khabarovskiy Kray]], and a corner of [[Zabaykalsky Krai|Zabaykalʼskiy Kray]]. These districts were acknowledged as Qing territory by the 1689 [[Treaty of Nerchinsk]] but ceded to the [[Russian Empire]] due to the [[Amur Annexation]] in the [[unequal treaty|unequal]] 1858 [[Treaty of Aigun]] and 1860 [[Convention of Beijing]] (the [[China|People's Republic of China]] indirectly [[Sino-Soviet border conflict|questioned the legitimacy of these treaties]] in the 1960s, but has more recently signed agreements such as the [[2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship]], which affirm the current status quo;<ref>[[2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship|Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship]] (2001), Article 6.</ref> a minor exchange nonetheless occurred in 2004 at the confluence of the [[Amur]] and [[Ussuri]] rivers).<ref>[[Complementary Agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on the Eastern Section of the China-Russia Boundary]] (2004).</ref> Various senses of Greater Manchuria sometimes further include [[Sakhalin|Sakhalin Island]], which despite its lack of mention in treaties was shown as Qing territory on period Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and French maps of the area.{{citation needed|date=May 2023}}

The [[drainage basin]] of the [[Amur|Amur River]] apart to the east towards Mongolia roughly corresponds to the geographical area of the historic land of the Manchu people. The northern boundary was marked by mountains.

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