What is the total territory area of the Qing Dynasty? Some people say that it is120,000 square kilometers, while others say that it is130,000 square kilometers. If we compare the territory of the Qing Dynasty before 1860 with the territory of China now, China has reduced by at least 3 million square kilometers, which means that in the19th century, Russia occupied more than160,000 square kilometers of land in China. Together with the divided outer Mongolia's land of about 6,543.8+600,000 square kilometers, this adds up to more than 3.2 million square kilometers. In addition, a lot of land in Tibet has been cut off, such as McMahon Line, which is at least 6,543,800 square kilometers. Plus the lost territory in southwest China, if we can count Lake Baikal abandoned by the Qing Dynasty in the Treaty of Nebuchadnezzar.

The vast land in the east is at least 500,000 square kilometers, while the land in the north of Sayanling abandoned by the Chaktu Treaty is at least 6.5438+0.4 million square kilometers in the Qing Dynasty.

We can learn from a simple historical reader how the Qing government ceded land for compensation and humiliated the country. The loss of territory alone-

1842, China and Britain ceded Hongkong according to treaty of nanking;

1858 the sino-Russian love-fainting treaty ceded the territory north of Heilongjiang and south of Hinggan mountains.

1860, the Sino-British Beijing Treaty ceded Kowloon on the other side of Hong Kong;

1860, the Sino-Russian Beijing Treaty ceded the territory east of the Wusuli River, about 903,000 square miles;

1874 The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty recognized Ryukyu Kingdom as Japanese territory.

1885, the Sino-French Peace Treaty recognized Annan's secession from the suzerain country, China, and became a French protectorate.

1886 The Sino-British Treaty on Myanmar recognizes that the affiliated Myanmar belongs to Britain;

1895 sino-Japanese treaty of shimonoseki gave up the suzerainty of Korea and ceded Liaodong Peninsula (returned to China after intervention by Russia, France and Germany), Taiwan Province Province and Penghu Islands.

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