ShenyangArticle Free Pass Shenyang, Wade-Giles romanization
Shen-yang, conventional Mukden, capital of Liaoning sheng
(province), China, and the largest city in the Northeast
(formerly Manchuria). It is one of China’s greatest industrial
centres. Shenyang is situated in the southern portion of the
vast Northeast (Manchurian) Plain just north of the Hun River, a
major tributary of the Liao River. The city site is a flat, low-
lying alluvial plain, although the land rises to the east toward
the forested slopes of the Changbai Mountains. Pop. (2002 est.)
city, 3,995,531; (2007 est.) urban agglom., 4,787,000. Since the
time of the Han dynasty (206 bce–220 ce), the lower Liao River
basin has been known as the Chinese Pale, an area settled
chiefly by Han Chinese immigrants from what are now the
provinces of Hebei and Shandong. During the Xi (Western) Han
period, a county called Houcheng was set up in the area of what
is now Shenyang. The rest of Manchuria was long under the
control of various nomadic and tribal peop