| JILIN | Province of NE China bordering Russia and North Korea; capital, Changchun (5) |
| GANSU | Province of NW China bordering Inner Mongolia; capital, Lanzhou (5) |
| SEOUL | S.Korea capital (5) |
| FINN | Person from a country bordering Russia and Sweden (4) |
| ESTONIA | Baltic state bordering Russia and Latvia (7) |
| LIAONING | Small province of NE China separated from North Korea by the Yalu River (8) |
| HOPEH | Province in NE China, old style |
| NEPAL | Mountainous region in northeast China (5) |
| INNER | & 13 Across Autonomous region of NE China south of the Gobi Desert; capital, Hohhot (5,8) |
| MONGOLIA | Autonomous region of NE China south of the Gobi Desert; capital, Hohhot (5,8) |
| LIAODONG | Large peninsula of NE China extending southwards into the Yellow Sea between the gulf of Bo Hai and Korea Bay (8) |
| MANCHURIA | Region of NE China which includes the province of Jilin (9) |
| YALU | River of eastern Asia forming most of the natural boundary between China and North Korea (4) |
| SIBERIA | Vast region of Russia and North Kazakhstan that has been a place of exile (7) |
| ALSACE | Region and former province of NE France between the Rhine and the Vosges Mountains (6) |
| SHENYANG | Capital of the province of Liaoning in NE China, formerly (in the 17th-20th centuries) called Mukden (8) |
| ARTOIS | Region and former province of NE France (6) |
| AXIS | ___ of Evil (term George W. Bush used for Iran, Iraq, and North Korea) |
| NANKEEN | Leaders in North America and North Korea ever at odds over nuclear material (7) |
| YELLOWSEA | Large arm of the western Pacific between Korea and NE China; Chinese name, Huang Hai (6,3) |
