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South Hamgyong
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English
Hamgyongnam-do
Etymology
en ko 함경남도(咸鏡南道).
Pronunciation
hämʹgyôngʹen 1952 South Hamgyong Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1805 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1805/ 2 South Hamgyong (hämʹgyôngʹ), Jap. [Japanese] Kankyonando, Korean Hamgyong-namdo, largest province [Jap. and Korean do]
Proper noun
South Hamgyong
en province c/North Korea Hamhung.
en https://archive.org/details/registerofdepart1933unit/ 1931 Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports 1929-1930 w:Wu Lien-teh VII 208–209 https://archive.org/details/b29752267_0001/page/208/ 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 (zh 長白山), dividing the southern parts of Liaoning Province from the Korean provinces Kankyo Nando (ko 咸鏡南道) and Hsian Hokudo (ko 平安北道). on
February 19, 2000 John Pomfret N. Korean Refugees Insecure In China https://web.archive.org/web/20240115004906/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/19/053r-021900-idx.html 15 January 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/19/053r-021900-idx.html A01 https://archive.ph/5BhCS Kim Jae Ru, a 67-year-old member of the Korean Workers' Party, worked for decades at the vast mine in Kumdug in South Hamgyong province. As the only major mine operating in North Korea, it received a healthy ration of donated food, a mixture of 80 percent corn and 20 percent rice.
en April 15, 2013 John Ruwitch Charlie Zhu China's freeway to North Korea: A road to nowhere Dean Yates w:Reuters https://archive.ph/nsHiP https://www.reuters.com/article/world/chinas-freeway-to-north-korea-a-road-to-nowhere-idUSBRE93E16S/ 14 October 2024 World A child nutrition survey in 2012 carried out by North Korea with U.N. assistance showed results in North Hamgyong province, which abuts Jilin, that appeared better in some cases than in South Hamgyong, next to Pyongyang. The usual assumption is that North Koreans live better the closer they are to Pyongyang.
March 8, 2020 w:Choe Sang-Hun North Korea Launches Multiple Projectiles in Weapons Test, South Korea Says https://web.archive.org/web/20200309105119/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/world/asia/north-korea-projectiles-launch.html 09 March 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/08/world/asia/north-korea-projectiles-launch.html Asia Pacific https://archive.li/89bv2 The projectiles were launched from Sondok, in South Hamgyong Province on the North’s east coast, and flew northeast before falling in waters between the North and Japan, South Korean defense officials said.
en 12 August 2021 North Korea: Heavy flooding destroys homes, farmland w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20210812083516/https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-heavy-flooding-destroys-homes-farmland/a-58836629 12 August 2021 https://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-heavy-flooding-destroys-homes-farmland/a-58836629 News https://archive.ph/HZq4W As North Korea's premier toured South Hamgyong, as much as 300 millimeters (11.8 inches) of new rain fell in some areas of North Hamgyong province on Wednesday, state broadcaster KRT reported.
en 13 March 2023 Pyongyang launches missiles from submarine ahead of US-Seoul drills w:EFE https://web.archive.org/web/20230313071646/https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2023-03-13/pyongyang-launches-missiles-from-submarine-ahead-of-us-seoul-drills/ 13 March 2023 https://efe.com/en/latest-news/2023-03-13/pyongyang-launches-missiles-from-submarine-ahead-of-us-seoul-drills/ https://archive.ph/qphWS Sinpo, in South Hamgyong, is the site of North Korea’s main submarine development center.
Holonyms
en Hamgyong
Translations
province
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 咸鏡南道
Korean: ko 함경남도
Polish: pl Hamgyong Południowy m
References
Further reading
en 1998 South Hamgyong Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2985 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2985/ 1
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