Manchuria is named supposedly for the manchu people, who are one of the many northernish chinese. It's a controversial name actually, because some will say that this is part of japanese propaganda to legitimize their view of things in the region. But we'll call it manchuria with that understanding. The area is huge, by the way, ired. It's the size like texas, louisiana and alabama put together - lots of coal, lots iron, potentially huge amounts of wheat.