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North Hamgyong

North Hamgyong proper noun: a province of North Korea. Capital: Chongjin.

Proper noun

North Hamgyong

  1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Chongjin.
    • This line is a continuation of the Seoul-Gensan line and extends from Gensan, in South Kanko Province, to Kainei (Korean “Hoiryong”; Chinese “Huining”), in North Kanko, a distance of some 383.8 miles.[1929 December, Ransford S. Miller, “Railway Development in Chosen”, in The Far Eastern Review, volume XXV, number 12, →OCLC, page 570, column 1
    • According to the birthplace of the parents, the subjects were distributed as follows: North Hamgyong province of North Korea, 179 men and 11 women; other provinces of North Korea, 106 men and 16 women; Korea (without indication of province), 107 men and 33 women; Far East, 94 men and 39 women.[…]
    • In order to bring out possible geographical differences in the physical type of the subjects examined, we set apart the group of natives from North Hamgyong as numerically adequately representative when we processed the data for the men.1963, M. G. Levin, “The Physical Types of the Koreans and Japanese”, in Henry N. Michael, editor, Ethnic Origins of the Peoples of Northeastern Asia, University of Toronto Press, →OCLC, page 290

Examples of North Hamgyong in a sentence

  • At least 8 of the top 11 members were from North Hamgyong Province and most were either educated in Russia or formerly involved in Soviet affairs.1976, Wayne S. Kiyosaki, “The Perils of Independence and Belligerency: 1965-69”, in North Korea's Foreign Relations: The Politics of...
  • In 2011, there were five family physicians in Kang-an dong, Hoeryeong City, North Hamgyong Province.2013 July, “The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for...
  • North Korea has conducted six nuclear tests since 2006, all of them in tunnels buried deep under Mount Mantap in Punggye-ri, in North Hamgyong Province.2017 October 30, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Nuclear Tests Raise Fears of Radioactive Fallout”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC...
  • A North Korean official provided testimony during a trial that Zhu had worked as a coal miner in North Hamgyong, a region that shares a long border with China’s Jilin province.2021 October 20, Amy Cheng, “Chinese city hunts for North Korean defector facing deportation who escaped from prison”, in The Washington...

Forms of North Hamgyong

alternative formNorth Hamgyeong

Origin of North Hamgyong

Partial calque of Korean 함경북도(咸鏡北道) (hamgyeongbukdo).

Questions about North Hamgyong

What does North Hamgyong mean?
North Hamgyong means a province of North Korea. Capital: Chongjin.
How do you use North Hamgyong in a sentence?
At least 8 of the top 11 members were from North Hamgyong Province and most were either educated in Russia or formerly involved in Soviet affairs.
What part of speech is North Hamgyong?
North Hamgyong is a proper noun.

Words near North Hamgyong in the dictionary

  1. North Grosvenordale
  2. North Guilford
  3. North Gyeongsang
  4. North Haledon
  5. North Hamgyeong
  6. North Hamgyong
  7. North Hampton
  8. North Hanover
  9. North Harrow
  10. North Harwich
  11. North Haven

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