South Jeolla
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 전라남도(全羅南道) (Jeollanamdo).
Proper noun
South Jeolla
- A province of South Korea.
- 2015 February 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A Korean Auto-Racing Debacle, but Hope Around the Bend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 17, 2015, Asia Pacific:
- Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a $375 million experiment: building a Formula One track.
- 2020 May 20, Julian Ryall, “Could a major earthquake soon strike South Korea?”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on May 21, 2020, Asia:
- But of even deeper concern to the experts have been the more than 400 seismic tremors since April 26 in a single area in South Jeolla Province, in the far south-west of the peninsula.
The region has not reported seismic activity since the government first began collating data in 1978.
Translations
province of South Korea
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Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “South Cholla”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2983, column 1
- South Jeolla, South Cholla at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.