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Chagang

Chagang proper noun: a province of North Korea. Capital: Kanggye.

Proper noun

Chagang

  1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Kanggye.
    • In the late 1960s or early 1970s the Unbong hydroelectric plant was constructed at Chasong on the Yalu River in Chagang Province, with an installed generating capacity of 400,000 kilowatts.1976 May, Nena Vreeland, Rinn-Sup Shinn, “Industry”, in Area Handbook for North Korea, 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 282
    • Last week, U.S. Rep. Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio) and this correspondent were permitted an unusual look behind the regime's wall of secrecy, traveling into areas rarely seen by outsiders, and never by an American journalist. In addition to Hamhung, which we reached in an old Soviet-made helicopter, we...1997 October 19, Keith B. Richburg, “Beyond a Wall of Secrecy, Devastation”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2000, page A01

Examples of Chagang in a sentence

  • On a recent visit to North Korea, I was welcomed into a modest apartment by a family in Huichon city, Chagang Province.2005 June 14, Tony Banbury, “Hungry, and getting desperate”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov...
  • Chagang Province was not that far away from my province, but they spoke with a very different accent.2017, Daniel Tudor, quoting Je Son Lee, “Pyongyang vs. the Rest”, in Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk about their Lives inside the...

Forms of Chagang

alternative formJagang

Origin of Chagang

Borrowed from Korean 자강도(慈江道) (Jagangdo).

Questions about Chagang

What does Chagang mean?
Chagang means a province of North Korea. Capital: Kanggye.
How do you use Chagang in a sentence?
On a recent visit to North Korea, I was welcomed into a modest apartment by a family in Huichon city, Chagang Province.
What part of speech is Chagang?
Chagang is a proper noun.

Words near Chagang in the dictionary

  1. Chagall
  2. Chagallian
  3. Chagalls
  4. chagals
  5. chagan
  6. Chagang
  7. chagans
  8. Chagas
  9. Chagas disease
  10. Chagas' disease
  11. chagasic

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