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North Pyungan

North Pyungan is the alternative form of North Pyongan.

Meaning of North Pyongan

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
    Synonyms:
    North Pingan

Questions about North Pyungan

What is North Pyungan the alternative form of?
North Pyungan is the alternative form of North Pyongan.

Words near North Pyungan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: North Pyungan (page history and authors); North Pyongan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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