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North Hamgyong
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English
Hamgyongbuk-to
Alternative forms
en North Hamgyeong
Etymology
en ko 함경북도(咸鏡北道).
Pronunciation
häm′gyông′North Hamgyong 1342 1 North Hamgyong (häm′gyông′), Jap. [Japanese] Kankyo-hokudo, Korean Hamgyong-pukdo,
Proper noun
North Hamgyong
en province c/North Korea Chongjin.
en 1929 December Ransford S. Miller Railway Development in Chosen The Far Eastern Review https://archive.org/details/far-eastern-review-1929.12/ XXV 12 1767520 570 https://archive.org/details/far-eastern-review-1929.12/page/570/ 1 This line is a continuation of the Seoul-Gensan line and extends from Gensan, in South Kanko Province, to Kainei (Korean “Hoiryong”; Chinese “Huining”), in North Kanko, a distance of some 383.8 miles. on
en 1963 M. G. Levin The Physical Types of the Koreans and Japanese Henry N. Michael Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia https://archive.org/details/ethnicoriginsofp0000levi/ w:University of Toronto Press 875663267 290 https://archive.org/details/ethnicoriginsofp0000levi/page/290/ According to the birthplace of the parents, the subjects were distributed as follows: North Hamgyong province of North Korea, 179 men and 11 women; other provinces of North Korea, 106 men and 16 women; Korea (without indication of province), 107 men and 33 women; Far East, 94 men and 39 women.In order to bring out possible geographical differences in the physical type of the subjects examined, we set apart the group of natives from North Hamgyong as numerically adequately representative when we processed the data for the men.
en 1976 Wayne S. Kiyosaki The Perils of Independence and Belligerency: 1965-69 North Korea's Foreign Relations: The Politics of Accommodation, 1945-75 https://archive.org/details/northkoreasforei0000kiyo/ w:Praeger Publishers 0-275-23490-8 76-19548 2595016 86 https://archive.org/details/northkoreasforei0000kiyo/page/86/ At least 11 and probably more of the permanent and candidate members belonged to Kim's old Kapsan faction, made up of men who fought together in Manchuria and then escaped to the Soviet Union. At least 8 of the top 11 members were from North Hamgyong Province and most were either educated in Russia or formerly involved in Soviet affairs.
en 18 August 1986 1985 November-December An Analysis of the Expansion of Jilin's Exports to Japan China Report: Economic Affairs https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-cea-86-096/ w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service !86-096 5722779 82 https://archive.org/details/jprs-report_jprs-cea-86-096/page/82/ Qingjin harbor is located in the city of Qingjin in Xianjin BeidaoXianjing Beidao, Korea. It is divided into east and west ports. on
en 1990 w:Bruce Cumings Notes The Origins of the Korean War https://archive.org/details/originsofkoreanw0000cumi/ II Princeton, NJ w:Princeton University Press 0-691-07843-2 80-8543 6943004 829 https://archive.org/details/originsofkoreanw0000cumi/page/829/ Provincial data on the 1949 elections for North Hamgyŏng Province show that about 40 percent of those elected to provincial, city, and county posts were peasants, about 30 percent were workers.
en 2013 July The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013 https://archive.org/details/whitepaperonhuma0000unse/ w:Korea Institute for National Unification 978-89-8479-714-7 907245231 335 https://archive.org/details/whitepaperonhuma0000unse/page/335/ In 2011, there were five family physicians in Kang-an dong, Hoeryeong City, North Hamgyong Province. The number was reduced, and only one is currently serving, and he does not play his proper role of being a family physician.
en October 30, 2017 w:Choe Sang-Hun North Korea Nuclear Tests Raise Fears of Radioactive Fallout w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20171030155223/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test-radiation.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests since 2006, all of them in tunnels buried deep under Mount Mantap in Punggye-ri, in North Hamgyong Province.
en June 8, 2018 Jessica Formoso From North Korea refugee to U.S. citizen in New York Our American Dream https://web.archive.org/web/20200716012801/https://www.fox5ny.com/news/from-north-korea-refugee-to-u-s-citizen-in-new-york-our-american-dream w:WNYW Joseph was born in 1990 in Hoeryŏng a city in North Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. Happy memories of his childhood ended in 2002 when North Korea's great famine took a deadly toll on his family.
en October 20, 2021 Amy Cheng Chinese city hunts for North Korean defector facing deportation who escaped from prison w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20211020090429/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/20/north-korean-defector-prison-escape-china/ 0190-8286 2269358 Asia A North Korean official provided testimony during a trial that Zhu had worked as a coal miner in North Hamgyong, a region that shares a long border with China’s Jilin province. Defectors fleeing the totalitarian Kim regime have attempted to cross via the Tumen River that straddles the Chinese-North Korean border.
en
Holonyms
en Hamgyong
Translations
province
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 咸鏡北道//咸镜北道
Japanese: ja 咸鏡北道
Korean: ko ^함경북도, ko ^함북
Polish: pl Hamgyong Północny m
References
Further reading
North Hamgyong, North Hamgyeong
en 1998 North Hamgyong Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2212 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/2212/ 1