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Shandong (province) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 36 20 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 36.3333 decimal degrees |
| Long: 118 15 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 118.2500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Occupied by Chinese farmers from early times; was important cultural area and famed as home to philosophers Confucius and Mencius; occupied by Japanese 1937; restored to China 1945; came under Communist control in Chinese civil war; has several good harbors. |
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| Shandong (preferred,C,V,English)
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| Shandong (Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin))
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| Shandong (Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones),U)
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| Shantung (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shandong Sheng (C,V,O,Chinese (transliterated Hanyu Pinyin)-P)
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| Shandong Sheng (Chinese (transliterated Pinyin without tones),U)
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| Shantung Province (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Shan-tung Sheng (C,V,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| 山东 (C,V,Chinese,U)
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| 山东省 (C,V,Chinese-P,U)
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| CH25 (C,V,FIPS,Chinese (transliterated),U)
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| Province de Shandong (C,U,French)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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| province (preferred, C) |
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established under Mings, 1300s |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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