Historical regions of China

Manchuria is a historical region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China and parts of the modern-day Russian Far East south of the Uda River and the Tukuringra-Dzhagdy ranges. The exact geographical extent varies depending on the definition: in the narrow sense, the area constituted by three Chinese provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning as well as the eastern Inner Mongolian prefectures of Hulunbuir, Hinggan, Tongliao, and Chifeng; in a broader sense, historical Manchuria includes those regions plus the Amur river basin, parts of which were ceded to

thumb|300px|The region of the "seven rivers", only five of which still exist today Jetisu (, ), also known as Semirechye () and Heptopotamia, is a historical region in Central Asia corresponding to the southeastern part of modern Kazakhstan.

historical region

geopolitical term of China

narrow stretch of traversable and relatively arable plain west of the Yellow River's Ordos Loop between the Mongolian and Tibetan Plateaus (western China)

referred to the regions west of Yumen Pass, most often Central Asia (e.g. Altishahr or the Tarim Basin in southern Xinjiang), ancient China (during the Han and Tang dynasties)

region in Russia

140px|right|thumb|Location of the Kokang region (green) within Shan State (yellow)

Wakhan (Dari; Pashto: ), also spelt as Vakhan and known as Vakhon (Tajik: Вахон}, is a rugged, mountainous part of the Pamir Mountains, Hindu Kush and Karakoram regions of Afghanistan and Tajikistan. It covers mainly the Wakhan District of Badakshan Province in northeastern Afghanistan.

historic region of the Mongol Empire

thumb|300px|Tang dynasty map of its Western territories, showing Tokharistan (吐火罗) in the area of [[Bactria, at the extreme west of Chinese-controlled territories.]]

Jiaozhi (standard Chinese, pinyin: Jiāozhǐ, Vietnamese: Giao Chỉ), was a historical region ruled by various Chinese dynasties, corresponding to present-day northern Vietnam. The kingdom of Nanyue (204–111 BC) set up the Jiaozhi Commandery (; , chữ Hán: 郡交趾) an administrative division centered in the Red River Delta that existed through Vietnam's first and second periods of Chinese rule. During the Han dynasty, the commandery was part of a province of the same name (later renamed to Jiaozhou) that covered modern-day northern and central Vietnam as well as Guangdong and Guangxi in southern China

Chinese colonization and occupation of Vietnam from 111 BC to 938 AD and from 1407 to 1427

province of early medieval China in northern Vietnam, often including parts of present-day Guangdong and Guangxi

indirect control areas of the Qing dynasty east of the Pamir plateau