Guandong
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Guandong, Kwantung, or other variants (關東/関東/关东/Guāndōng) meaning "east of the pass" may refer to:
Guandong is not to be confused with Guangdong
, formerly Kwangtung or Canton, a province in southern China
- A historical name for all of ManchuriaManchuriaManchuria is a historical name given to a large geographic region in northeast Asia. Depending on the definition of its extent, Manchuria usually falls entirely within the People's Republic of China, or is sometimes divided between China and Russia. The region is commonly referred to as Northeast...
, i.e. east of Shanhai Pass, in China - Kwantung Leased TerritoryKwantung Leased TerritoryThe Kwantung Leased Territory was a territory in the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula in Inner Manchuria that existed from 1898 to 1945. It was one of the numerous territorial concessions that the Empire of China was compelled to award to foreign countries at the end of the 19th century...
, a small section of the above region controlled by Russia and, then, Japan from 1898 to 1945- Kwantung Army, stationed in the above territory before 1945
- Gwandong, a traditional region and another name for Gangwon (historical province) in Korea
- The Mandarin Chinese name of the Kantō regionKanto regionThe is a geographical area of Honshu, the largest island of Japan. The region includes the Greater Tokyo Area and encompasses seven prefectures: Gunma, Tochigi, Ibaraki, Saitama, Tokyo, Chiba, and Kanagawa. Within its boundaries, slightly more than 40 percent of the land area is the Kantō Plain....
of Japan, which lies east of Hakone Pass
Guandong is not to be confused with Guangdong
Guangdong
Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
, formerly Kwangtung or Canton, a province in southern China