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Paju

Paju proper noun: a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.

Proper noun

Paju

  1. A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
    • In August, South Korea confirmed dozens of cases linked to a single Starbucks in the city of Paju where many customers did not wear masks.2020 October 14, Antonia Noori Farzan, Siobhán O'Grady, “A Canadian spin studio followed public health guidelines. But 61 people still caught the coronavirus.”, in The Washington Post (Americas...
    • A satellite city 22 miles northwest of Seoul, South Korea, Paju is small, with a population of around half a million. The streets are quieter than those of the bustling capital, the air cleaner and the pace of life half a beat slower.2023 November 25, Jin Yu Young, “South Korea’s City of Books”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2023

Origin of Paju

Borrowed from Korean 파주(坡州) (Paju).

Questions about Paju

What does Paju mean?
Paju means a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
What part of speech is Paju?
Paju is a proper noun.

Words near Paju in the dictionary

  1. Pajonism
  2. Pajonist
  3. Pajonists
  4. Pajonk
  5. Pajonks
  6. Paju
  7. Pajubá
  8. Pajęczno
  9. pak
  10. pak chew cheng
  11. pak chiu cheng

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