China: Paper currency of the Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang (Inner Mongolia), 1940.
Mengjiang (Meng-chiang; Postal map spelling: Mengkiang), also known in English as Mongol Border Land, was a Japanese puppet area in Inner Mongolia, operating under nominal Chinese sovereignty and Japanese control. It consisted of the then-Chinese provinces of Chahar and Suiyuan, corresponding to the central part of modern Inner Mongolia.The capital was Kalgan, and the ruler was Demchugdongrub.
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