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Nampo

Nampo proper noun: a city in North Korea.

Proper noun

Nampo

  1. A city in North Korea.
    • The dredging of Udan Shoal in the Daido River in front of the Custom House at Heijo (Pyöng-yang) and landing equipments were all completed in the year 1913, and the construction of an open dock system in Chinnampo was completed in 1915.[1918 January, “Changing Korea”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XIV, number 1, →OCLC, page 35, column 2
    • At Chinnampo, the mining company’s steam launch, with an old American salt named Captain Barstow, was waiting to take us 75 miles farther north to Anju, the old town on the Seisen River, mentioned many times in the newspapers during the late war.[1962, Robert H. Ivy, “Westward to the Far East”, in A Link with the Past, Baltimore: The Williams & Wilkins Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 17–18

Nampo meaning in Hindi

Nampo in Hindi

a city in North Korea
नाम्पो nāmpo

Examples of Nampo in a sentence

  • On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War.2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The de-nuclearisation dance resumes”, in BBC News, archived from the original on 29...
  • Nampo serves North Korea's capital, Pyongyang.2017 April 28, Chen Aizhu, Gavin Maguire, Florence Tan, Josephine Mason, “How North Korea gets its oil from China: lifeline in question at...
  • It returned to North Korea in early February, and has been anchored outside Nampo since at least Feb. 14, according to ship tracking data and satellite imagery reviewed by The Times.2020 March 26, Christoph Koettl, “Coronavirus Is Idling North Korea’s Ships, Achieving What Sanctions Did Not”, in The New York Times...

Forms of Nampo

alternative formNamp'o

Origin of Nampo

From Korean 남포(南浦) (Nampo).

Questions about Nampo

What does Nampo mean?
Nampo means a city in North Korea.
What is Nampo in Hindi?
Nampo in Hindi is नाम्पो (nāmpo). See Nampo meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Nampo in a sentence?
On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War.
What part of speech is Nampo?
Nampo is a proper noun.

Words near Nampo in the dictionary

  1. Nampa
  2. Nampalcan
  3. Nampeyo
  4. Nampho
  5. Nampicuan
  6. Nampo
  7. Nampol
  8. Nampoothiri
  9. Nampoothiris
  10. Nampootiri
  11. Nampootiris

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