Gyeongsang
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English
Alternatives
- Kyŏngsang (outdated, McCune–Reischauer)
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 경상도(慶尙道) (Gyeongsangdo). Doublet of Kyŏngsang.
Proper noun
Gyeongsang
- A province of South Korea.
- , volume II, number 4, Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 234:
- The key to the latter, showing the entire kingdom, as well as one of the expanded sheets showing the Kyöngsang province in the southeast, and the Nakdong river, the most important stream of the land, are appended to this paper, and will serve to indicate the progress independently attained by the Koreans in the art of map making.]
- n.d., “North Gyeongsang Province”, in Korea by Bike, archived from the original on 05 June 2023:
- Though the country split Gyeongsang in half, North Gyeongsang Province is the second largest province, accounting for 18.95% of South Korea. But, when Daegu attained self-governing metropolitan city status in 1981, North Gyeongsang became the nation’s second least populated.
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Provinces on the Korean Peninsula: