Liaobei Explained

Conventional Long Name:Liaobei Province
Common Name:Liaobei
Nation:Republic of China
Status Text:Province of the Republic of China
Life Span:1945–1948
Capital:Liaoyüan (de jure)
Szeping (de facto)
Today:China
Liaoning
Date Pre:1941
Event Pre:Siping Province established by Manchukuo
Year Start:1945
Year End:1948
Image Map Caption:Map showing Liaobei under de jure ROC control.
P1:Siping Province
S1:Liaoxi
Stat Year1:1948
Stat Area1:121,624
Stat Pop1:4,904,399

Liaobei (Wade-Giles: Liaopei) also known as Liaopeh is a de jure province of the Republic of China under ROC law as the government of the Republic of China formally claims to be the sole legitimate government of China. Located in Manchuria, the major part of the area of Liaobei constitutes the parts of province which is now in Inner Mongolia, now under the de facto jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China. Its de jure capital is located in Liaoyuan City (present-day Shuangliao, Jilin),[1] but the de facto capital is at Siping City since Liaoyuan was already occupited by the Communists.

Today the area of the former Liaobei province spread across Inner Mongolia, Jilin and Liaoning.

As the ROC does not recognize changes in administrative divisions made by the PRC, official maps sanctioned by the ROC government shows Liaobei Province in its pre-1949 borders.

Administrative divisions

Liaobei was divided into 1 city, 19 counties and 6 banners.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 双辽是两条辽河吗 . 2018-06-14 . 2018-06-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045238/http://dfz.jl.gov.cn/jldm/201806/t20180604_12755.html . dead .