Which Chinese peninsula contains Dalian and forms the southern part of Liaoning Province?

Liaodong Peninsula contains Dalian and forms the southern part of China’s Liaoning Province.

The peninsula projects southward into the Yellow Sea and lies between the Korea Bay to the east and the Liaodong Bay to the west. Dalian, at its southern end, is a major port and one of northeastern China’s most important cities. The region’s sheltered harbours helped make it strategically significant.

Liaodong was contested by China, Japan and Russia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Treaty of Shimonoseki transferred the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan in 1895, but international pressure forced its return to China. Russia later leased the territory, and Japan controlled it after the Russo-Japanese War.

It is distinct from the Shandong Peninsula, which projects into the Yellow Sea farther south and contains Qingdao. Both are important Chinese peninsulas, but they belong to different provinces and face different parts of the Bohai-Yellow Sea region.