| LIAONING | Province of northeast China; capital Shenyang (8) |
| JILIN | Province of NE China bordering Russia and North Korea; capital, Changchun (5) |
| INNERMONGOLIA | Region of northeast China |
| MANCHU | Tungusic people of northeast China |
| MANCHURIA | Region of northeast China (9) |
| LIAODONG | Large peninsula of NE China extending southwards into the Yellow Sea between the gulf of Bo Hai and Korea Bay (8) |
| MONGOLIA | Autonomous region of NE China south of the Gobi Desert; capital, Hohhot (5,8) |
| SHENYANG | Capital of the province of Liaoning in NE China, formerly (in the 17th-20th centuries) called Mukden (8) |
| INNER | & 13 Across Autonomous region of NE China south of the Gobi Desert; capital, Hohhot (5,8) |
| YELLOW | ___ Sea, arm of the Pacific between Korean Peninsula and northeast China (6) |
| ARTOIS | Region and former province of NE France (6) |
| TRANSVAAL | Former province of NE South Africa (1910-94) |
| NEPAL | Mountainous region in northeast China |
| HOPEH | Province in NE China, old style |
| CHAMPAGNE | Region and former province of NE France designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2015 along with the nearby Burgundy (9) |
| ALSACE | Region and former province of NE France between the Rhine and the Vosges Mountains (6) |
| YELLOWSEA | Large arm of the western Pacific between Korea and NE China; Chinese name, Huang Hai (6,3) |
| TAKU | Town in NE China |
| ENCHAIN | Confine in NE China perhaps |
| WEIHAI | Port in Shandong, NE China, on the Yellow Sea (6) |
