North Pyongan
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Etymology
Partial calque of Korean 평안북도(平安北道) (pyeong'anbukdo).
Proper noun
- A province of North Korea. Capital: Sinuiju.
- , volume VII, pages 208–209:
- The course of the Yalu river traverses a track of country ranging from 124 20' to 128 40' E. Long. and from 39 50' to 42 15, N. Lat., the course of its main stream affording a boundary line on the south-western side of Changpai Mountain (長白山), dividing the southern parts of Liaoning Province from the Korean provinces Kankyo Nando (咸鏡南道) and Hsian Hokudo (平安北道).]
- 1956, Shannon McCune, “Mineral and Hydroelectric Power Resources”, in Korea's Heritage: A Regional & Social Geography, 1st edition, Charles E. Tuttle Company, published 1963, →OCLC, page 222:
- The major gold mining areas in northern Korea were originally developed with American capital and technical skill. The most famous mines are the Unsan and Pukchin mines, located in the mountainous area northeast of the plains of North Pyongan Province.
2013 July, “The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for National Unification, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 317:
- I worked at a clothing export factory from May 2004 to February 2010 at Pihyon County, North Pyongan Province. They exported manufactured clothing to China, and with the money they earned, they issued regular rations. The amount was 14kg of rice and 1 kg of cooking oil per month, and 1 kg of sugar every 3 months.
2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 01 July 2018:
- Kim Jong-un visited a cosmetics factory situated in Sinuiju, capital of the North Pyongan province, situated on the south bank of the Yalu River, which marks the border between the two countries.
2020 August 27, Alexander Chee, “My Family’s Shrouded History Is Also a National One for Korea”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-08-27:
- My grandfather began as a young fisherman, selling his catch at a market held on boats in the open ocean, before learning he could study fisheries at university.
August 1945 found them living near Sinuiju, in North Pyongan Province, along the border with China, just north of Pyongyang, where he had been assigned to work as a civil servant in a fisheries laboratory run by the colonial government.
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province
Further reading
- North Pyongan, North Phyongan, North Pyeongan, North Pyungan at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “North Pyongan”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1343, column 3
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “North Pyongan”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2216, column 1