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Nomonhan is a small village near the border between Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the






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Nomonhan is a small village near the border between Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
 and Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia

Inner Mongolia is the Mongols autonomous region of China of the People's Republic of China, located in the country's north.Inner Mongolia borders, from east to west, the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, and Gansu, while to the north it borders Mongolia and Russia....
, China
China

China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
 south of the Chinese city of Manzhouli
Manzhouli

Manzhouli is a sub-prefecture-level city located in Hulunbuir prefecture-level city, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China ....
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In the summer of 1939 it was the location of the Nomonhan Incident, as it is termed in Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
, or the Battle of Khalkhin Gol
Battle of Khalkhin Gol

The Battle of Khalkhyn Gol was the decisive engagement of the undeclared Soviet-Japanese Border Wars, or Japanese-Soviet War, fought between the Soviet Union and the Empire of Japan in 1939....
 as it is known in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
 and (Outer) Mongolia
Mongolia

Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia and Central Asia. It borders Russia to the north and People's Republic of China to the south, east and west....
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