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North Pyongan

North Pyongan proper noun: a province of North Korea. Capital: Sinuiju.

Proper noun

North Pyongan

  1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Sinuiju.
    • The major gold mining areas in northern Korea were originally developed with American capital and technical skill. The most famous mines are the Unsan and Pukchin mines, located in the mountainous area northeast of the plains of North Pyongan Province.1956, Shannon McCune, “Mineral and Hydroelectric Power Resources”, in Korea's Heritage: A Regional & Social Geography, 1st edition, Charles E. Tuttle Company, published 1963, →OCLC, page 222
    • The delegation of P'ing-an Pei-tao and Hsin-i-chou municipality led by Li Ken-ho (2621 2704 3109), the vice chairman of the people's council of Hsin-i-chou municipality, P'ing-an Pei-tao, the Korean Democratic People's Republic, attache Cheng Feng-kuei (6774 7685 3802) of the Korean Embassy in...[1965 March 31 [1965 March 12], “A Solemn Ceremony to Change the Name of An-tung Municipality to Tan-tung Municipality”, in Translations of Political and Sociological Information on Communist China...
    Synonyms:
    North Pingan

Examples of North Pyongan in a sentence

  • I worked at a clothing export factory from May 2004 to February 2010 at Pihyon County, North Pyongan Province.2013 July, “The Reality of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights”, in White Paper on Human Rights in North Korea 2013, Korea Institute for...
  • Kim Jong-un visited a cosmetics factory situated in Sinuiju, capital of the North Pyongan province, situated on the south bank of the Yalu River, which marks the border between the two countries.2018 July 1, “Kim Jong-un highlights China ties with second border visit”, in EFE, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2018:

Synonyms of North Pyongan

Forms of North Pyongan

alternative formNorth Phyongan
alternative formNorth Pyeongan
alternative formNorth Pyungan

Origin of North Pyongan

Partial calque of Korean 평안북도(平安北道) (pyeong'anbukdo).

Questions about North Pyongan

What does North Pyongan mean?
North Pyongan means a province of North Korea. Capital: Sinuiju.
How do you use North Pyongan in a sentence?
I worked at a clothing export factory from May 2004 to February 2010 at Pihyon County, North Pyongan Province.
What part of speech is North Pyongan?
North Pyongan is a proper noun.

Words near North Pyongan in the dictionary

  1. North Poorton
  2. North Port
  3. North Pownal
  4. North Providence
  5. North Pyeongan
  6. North Pyongan
  7. North Pyungan
  8. North Queensferry
  9. North Queensland
  10. North Quincy
  11. North Reading

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