Maritime Province

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 46

Maritime Province (Primorskaya), part of eastern Siberia, extending along the Pacific coast from the frontiers of Corea to the Arctic Ocean, and including Kamchatka and Saghalien. It has a length of 2300 miles, a very varying breadth, and the enormous area of 730,000 sq. m. (more than 3½ times the size of Germany). The variety of climate and productions is of course great. See AMUR, SIBERIA, KAMCHATKA, SAGHALIEN. The Maritime and Amur provinces are under one governor-general, whose headquarters are at Khabarovka.

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