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Manpo

Manpo proper noun: a municipal city in Chagang Province, North Korea.

Proper noun

Manpo

  1. A municipal city in Chagang Province, North Korea.
    • We finally reached Choesin-dong, a suburb of Manpo and on the Yalu River border between Korea and Manchuria, that day.1966, William F. Dean, William L. Worden, “My Three Years as a Dead Man”, in Post True Stories of Courage and Survival, 1st edition, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 207
    • Under the warm loving care they performed such exploits as finishing the 250 kilometre long railway construction in the Hyesan-Manpho section in a little more than five years by digging tunnels through high and steep mountains and building railway bridges across swift river currents and deep...[1993 February 12 [1993 February 11], “KCNA Details Youth's Exploits, Deeds”, in Daily Report: East Asia, number 28, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Pyongyang KCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Origin of Manpo

Borrowed from Korean 만포(滿浦) (Manpo).

Questions about Manpo

What does Manpo mean?
Manpo means a municipal city in Chagang Province, North Korea.
What part of speech is Manpo?
Manpo is a proper noun.

Words near Manpo in the dictionary

  1. manpages
  2. manpain
  3. manpanzee
  4. manpanzees
  5. manparts
  6. Manpo
  7. manpo-kei
  8. manpon
  9. manpons
  10. manportable
  11. manpouch

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