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The Jurchen , also known by many variant names , were a Tungusic ___MASK65___ who inhabited the region of Manchuria until around 1630 , at which ___MASK85___ they were reformed and combined with their neighbors as the Manchus . The Jurchen established the Jin Dynasty , whose empire conquered the Northern ___MASK86___ in 1127 , gaining control of most of North China . Jin control over China lasted until their 1234 conquest by the Mongols . The Manchus would later conquer the Ming and establish the Qing Dynasty , which ruled China until their overthrow in 1911 . ___MASK71___ is a historical ___MASK91___ in East Asia , since 1945 divided into two distinct sovereign states : North ___MASK71___ ( officially the " Democratic ___MASK65___ ' s ___MASK5___ of ___MASK71___ ") and South ___MASK71___ ( officially the " ___MASK5___ of ___MASK71___ "). Located on the Korean Peninsula , ___MASK71___ is bordered by China to the northwest and Russia to the northeast . It is separated from Japan to the east by the ___MASK71___ Strait and the East ___MASK96___ . The Mohe , Malgal , or Mogher were a Tungusic ___MASK65___ in ancient Manchuria . They are sometimes considered the ancestors of the Jurchens , modern - ___MASK94___ Manchus and other Tungusic peoples . According to some records , they originally dwelt near the Liao ___MASK68___ and later migrated southward . They were involved in the ancient history of Korea : the records of the southern Korean Kingdoms of Baekje and Silla during the 1st century and 2nd century AD include numerous battles against the Mohe . Later , they became subject to the northern Korean kingdom of Goguryeo and its successor state , Balhae . Jurchen ___MASK64___ is the Tungusic ___MASK64___ of the Jurchen ___MASK65___ of eastern Manchuria , the founders of the Jin Empire in northeastern China of the 12th  13th centuries . It is ancestral to Manchu . In 1635 Hong Taiji renamed the Jurchen ___MASK65___ and Jurchen ___MASK64___ as " Manchu ". Mongolia ( Mongolian : [" Monggol Ulus "] in Mongolian ___MASK30___ ; [" Mongol Uls "] in Mongolian Cyrillic ) is a landlocked unitary sovereign state in East Asia . Its area is roughly equivalent with the historical territory of Outer Mongolia , and that term is sometimes used to refer to the current state . It is sandwiched between China to the south and Russia to the north . While it does not share a border with Kazakhstan , Mongolia is separated from it by only . Abaoji ( Mongolian : " Ambagyan "), posthumously known as ___MASK48___ Taizu of Liao was a Khitan leader and founder of the Liao dynasty ( 907  926 ). He had a sinicised name , Yelü Yi ; some sources suggest that Abaoji ' s ___MASK95___ , Yelü , was adopted during his lifetime , though there is no unanimity on this point . The Russian Far East is the Russian ___MASK36___ of the Far East , i . e . the extreme east parts of Russia , between Lake Baikal in Eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean . The Far Eastern Federal District , which covers this area , borders with the Siberian Federal District to the west . The Far Eastern Federal District has land borders with the ___MASK65___ ' s ___MASK5___ of China and North Korea to the south west and maritime borders with Japan and the American state of Alaska . Although traditionally considered ___MASK36___ of Siberia , the Russian Far East is categorized separately from Siberia in Russian regional schemes ( and previously during the Soviet era when it was called the Soviet Far East ). The Amur ___MASK68___ ( Even :  , " Tamur " ) or Heilong Jiang (" Black Dragon ___MASK68___ " " Black Water ") is the world ' s tenth longest ___MASK68___ , forming the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China ( Inner Manchuria ). The largest fish species in the Amur is the kaluga , attaining a length as great as . Manchuria is a modern ___MASK78___ , first created by Japanese , given to a large ___MASK61___ in Northeast Asia . Depending on the context , Manchuria can either refer to a region that falls entirely within the ___MASK65___ ' s ___MASK5___ of China , or a larger region divided between China and Russia . The region that falls entirely within modern China is now usually referred to as Northeast China in China , although " Manchuria " is widely used outside of China to denote the ___MASK44___ and historical region . This region is the traditional homeland of the Xianbei , Khitan , and Jurchen ( later called Manchu ) peoples , who built several states historically , although no term for " Manchuria " exists in the Manchu language , which originally referred to the area as the " Three Eastern Provinces ". An ___MASK73___ is defined as " an aggregate of nations or ___MASK65___ ruled over by an emperor or other powerful sovereign or ___MASK98___ , usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom , as the former British Empire , French Empire , Brazilian Empire , Russian Empire , Ottoman Empire , Byzantine Empire or Roman Empire ." An ___MASK73___ can be made solely of contiguous territories such as the Austro - Hungarian Empire , or of territories far remote from the homeland , such as a colonial ___MASK73___ . Heilongjiang is a ___MASK77___ of the People ' s Republic of China located in the northeastern part of the country . " Heilongjiang " literally means Black Dragon ___MASK68___ , which is the Chinese name for the Amur . The one - character abbreviation is  ( pinyin : Hi ). The Manchu name of the region is " Sahaliyan ula " ( literally , " Black ___MASK68___ "), from which the name of Sakhalin is derived , and the Mongolian name with the same meaning is " Qaramörin ". Khagan or Qagan (" Khaan ", Mongolian ___MASK30___ : , " Qaan " " Khqn ", alternatively spelled Kagan , Khaghan , Kha - khan , Xagahn , Qaghan , Chagan ,  , or Kha ' an ) is a title in the Mongolian language equal to the status of emperor and used to refer to someone who rules a khaganate or empire . The title was adopted by Ögedei Khan from the Turkic title " kaan ". The female equivalent is Khatun . China , officially the ___MASK65___ ' s ___MASK5___ of China ( PRC ), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia . With a population of over ___MASK83___ . 381 billion , it is the world ' s most populous country . The state is governed by the Communist Party of China , and its capital is Beijing . It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces , five autonomous regions , four direct - controlled municipalities ( Beijing , Tianjin , Shanghai , and Chongqing ), and two mostly self - governing special administrative regions ( Hong Kong and Macau ), and claims sovereignty over Taiwan . The country ' s major urban areas include Shanghai , Guangzhou , Beijing , Chongqing , Shenzhen , Tianjin and Hong Kong . China is a great power and a major regional power within Asia , and has been characterized as a potential superpower . East Asia is the eastern ___MASK35___ of the Asian ___MASK23___ , which can be defined in either geographical or ethno - cultural terms . Geographically and geopolitically , it includes China , Hong Kong , and Macao ; Mongolia and Taiwan ; North and South Korea ; and Japan ; it covers about , or about 28 % of the Asian ___MASK23___ , about twice the area of Europe . Russia ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian ___MASK22___ , is a country in Eurasia . At , Russia is the largest country in the world by ___MASK16___ area , covering more than one - eighth of the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European Russia . Russia ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Jurchen ___MASK30___ ( Jurchen : ) was the writing system used to write the Jurchen language , the language of the Jurchen people who created the Jin Empire in northeastern China in the 12th  13th centuries . It was derived from the Khitan ___MASK30___ , which in turn was derived from Chinese ( Han characters ). The ___MASK30___ has only been decoded to a small extent . The Liao ___MASK50___ ( Khitan : " Mos Jælud "), officially the Great Liao , also known as the Khitan ___MASK73___ ( Khitan : " Mos diau - d kitai huldi gur ") and the Liao ___MASK73___ , was an ___MASK73___ in East Asia that ruled from 907 to 1125 over present - ___MASK94___ Mongolia and portions of the Russian Far East , northern Korea , and northern China . The Liao ___MASK50___ was founded by Abaoji , Khagan of the Khitan people around the time of the collapse of Tang China . It was the first state to control all of Manchuria . Outer Manchuria or Outer Northeast China ( ___MASK69___ :  or  ; Russian :    or " Priamurye ") is an unofficial term for a territory in Northeast Asia that was formerly part of the ___MASK69___ Qing dynasty and now belongs to Russia . It is considered part of the larger historical region of Manchuria which also includes the modern - ___MASK94___ Northeast China . Russia officially received this territory by the unequal treaties of the Treaty of Aigun in 1858 and the Treaty of Peking in 1860 . The northern part of the area was also in dispute between 1643 and 1689 . The Wanyan ( ___MASK69___ :  ; pinyin : Wányán ; Manchu :  Wanggiya ; Jurchen ___MASK30___ : ) clan was among of the clans of the Heishui Mohe tribe living in the drainage region of the Heilong ___MASK68___ during the time of the Liao dynasty , which was ruled by the Khitan . Of the Heishui Mohe , the clan was counted by the Liao among the `` uncivilized Jurchen '' (  ) indicating that the clan was not subject to the direct rule of the Khitan Emperors . Those Heishui Mohe clans ruled by the Liao dynasty / Khitan Empire were referred to as `` civilized Jurchen '' (  ) . The Heishui or Blackriver Mohe ( or ), also known as the , were a ___MASK63___ of the Mohe people in Outer Manchuria along the Amur ___MASK68___ in what is now Russia ' s Khabarovsk , Amur , and Jewish Provinces and China ' s Heilongjiang Province . The Khitan or Kitan ___MASK65___ (" Ktayn "; " Khejtan "), also known as the Khitai " Khitai ") or Kidan ( Modern Mandarin ___MASK69___ : " Qìdn " " Kidan " " Kuran "), were a nomadic ___MASK65___ originally from Mongolia , Manchuria ( or Northeast China ), and the Russian Far East from the 4th century that spoke a language distantly related to the Mongolic languages . As the Liao dynasty , they dominated a vast area north of and including parts of China , but left few relics that have survived until today .