We were taught at school that China is the Orient or the Far East - the term 'north east' seems to me to be in relation to the American states rather than World Geography.xx
Dongbei Dong = "east" Bei = "north" ------------- Mike localnoodles.com
Normally, peopel think the three provinces, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, are north east part of China.
Picture it this way. If you divide a circle, or a compass, into quarters, you get the four cardinal directions: north, east, south, and west. If you then divide those quadrants in half, the midpoints...