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Map showing the original border (in pink) between Manchuria and Russia according to the Treaty of Nerchinsk 1689, and subsequent losses of territory to Russia in the treaties of Aigun 1858 (beige) and Peking 1860 (red) Harbin's Kitayskaya Street (Russian for "Chinese Street"), now Zhongyang Street (Chinese for "Central Street"), before 1945
As a result, China lost the region [12]: 348 that came to be known as Outer Manchuria or Russian Manchuria (an area of 350,000 square miles (910,000 km 2) [2]) and access to the Sea of Japan. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] In the wake of these events, the Qing government changed course and encouraged Han Chinese migration to Manchuria ( Chuang Guandong ).
The Chinese–Russian border or the Sino-Russian border is the international border between China and Russia. After the final demarcation carried out in the early 2000s, it measures 4,209.3 kilometres (2,615.5 mi), [ 1 ] and is the world's sixth-longest international border.
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Map of China and its borders within Asia Style of China's boundary marker. Sino-Russian border railway port at Manzhouli. Models of the Sino-Russian border port in Manzhouli from various historical periods displayed in the square. The northernmost point of China, north of Mohe in Heilongjiang, with Russia on the other side of the fence.
Map of the region including the "64 Villages" boundary shown on Chinese Nationalist maps. In the summer of 1857, the Russian Empire offered monetary compensation to China's Qing dynasty government if they would remove the native inhabitants from the area; however, their offer was rebuffed. [4] The following year, in the 1858 Treaty of Aigun ...
That treaty made the Argun River, which originates in this area, the border between China and Russia. In 1901, the China Far East Railway was completed in accordance with the Sino-Russian Secret Treaty of 1896, linking Siberia, Manchuria/northeast China, and the Russian Far East. A settlement then formed around Manchzhuriya Station, the first ...
The northern border of "Chinese Tartary", as shown on this map from 1734, was more or less the Sino-Russian border line settled at Nerchinsk. Nerchinsk itself is shown on the map (on the Russian side of the border) as well. The Qing Empire with provinces in yellow, military governorates and protectorates in green, tributary states in orange.