The Liaodong Peninsula (sim. ch. 辽东半岛) is a peninsula in the Liaoning province of northeastern China. Liaodong (Liaotung) means "Eastern Liaoning".
Geography
The peninsula lies at the north of the Yellow Sea, between the Bohai Sea to the west and the Korea Bay to the east.
It forms the southern part of a mountain belt that continues northward in the Changbai Mountains. The part of the mountain range on the peninsula is known as the Qian Mountains.
The seaport of Dalian (formerly known as Lushun, or Port Arthur) is located at its southernmost point.
History
The peninsula was an important battlefield during the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). It was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki of April 17, 1895 but Japan was forced to give it up after the Triple Intervention of April 23, 1895 by Russia, France and Germany. This caused huge resentment among the Japanese people.
The LiaotungPeninsula forms a part of a larger mountain belt, with a southwest-northeast axis, which is continued in the Ch'ang-pai Mountains of the Northeast (Manchuria)–North Korean border area.
On the peninsula, the range is known as the Ch'ien Mountains.
Near the southern tip of the peninsula lies the major city and port of Lü-ta, which is made up of the ports of Ta-lien and Lü-shun (Dairen and Port Arthur).
peninsula on the northern shore of Molokai island, Hawaii, U.S. Occupying a 5-square-mile (13-square-km) plateau unsuited to agriculture, the peninsula is isolated from the rest of the island by 2,000-foot (600-metre) cliffs.
peninsula, southern Costa Rica, bounded on the northwest by Coronado Bay, on the west by the Pacific Ocean, and on the east by the Gulf of Dulce.
Korea Bay and the gulf of Bo Hai are its main inlets, shaped by the Liaodong Peninsula jutting from the north and the Shandong Peninsula from the southwest.
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