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Kangwon

Kangwon proper noun: a province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan. Also the alternative form of Gangwon.

Proper noun

Kangwon

  1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.
    • The food will assist families working on collective farms in Kangwon Province, North Korea. Made homeless by the 1995 floods, they are sail housed with other farm families.1996 June 14, “CRC helps relieve food shortage in North Korea”, in Christian Courier, number 2490, sourced from Burlington, Ontario (CRWRC), →ISSN, →OCLC, Church, page 9, column 3
    • Mr. Chung, a son of a poor farmer in Tonchon, Kangwon Province, in North Korea, said he had decided to donate the cattle to pay a family debt. At 18, Mr. Chung stole his father's cow in secret and used the proceeds to travel to Seoul to make his fortune. He is now one of South Korea's wealthiest...1999 August 8, Calvin Sims, “North Korea Sees a Plot After Deaths Of Gift Cows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World

Also used as

Kangwon is also the alternative form of Gangwon.

Examples of Kangwon in a sentence

  • Chung, a son of a poor farmer in Tonchon, Kangwon Province, in North Korea, said he had decided to donate the cattle to pay a family debt.1999 August 8, Calvin Sims, “North Korea Sees a Plot After Deaths Of Gift Cows”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...
  • In 2002, the North Korean government separated this area from North Korea’s Kangwon province and it became a so-called special zone, the Kumgangsan Tourist Region, with provincial status.2008, “Geography and Climate”, in Korea (World and Its Peoples), volume 7, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 868, column 2:
  • At present, Wonsan is the provincial capital of North Korea's Kangwon Province and has an estimated population of some 330,000 people.2010, Jinwung Kim, “Wonsan, North Korea”, in Spencer C. Tucker, editor, The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and...
  • North Korea early on Saturday fired several short-range projectiles into the sea off its east coast from its eastern Kangwon province, South Korea’s military said.2017 August 25, Jack Kim, “UPDATE 3-N.Korea fires multiple short-range projectiles into sea -S.Korea”, in James Dalgleish, Sandra Maler...

Forms of Kangwon

alternative formKangwŏn

Origin of Kangwon

Borrowed from Korean 강원도(江原道) (Gang'wondo). Doublet of Gangwon.

Questions about Kangwon

What does Kangwon mean?
Kangwon means a province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.
How do you use Kangwon in a sentence?
Chung, a son of a poor farmer in Tonchon, Kangwon Province, in North Korea, said he had decided to donate the cattle to pay a family debt.
What part of speech is Kangwon?
Kangwon is a proper noun.

Words near Kangwon in the dictionary

  1. kanguroo
  2. kanguroos
  3. kanguru
  4. kangurus
  5. KaNgwane
  6. Kangwon
  7. Kangwŏn
  8. Kangxi
  9. Kangxi radical
  10. Kangxi radicals
  11. Kangy Angy

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