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Pyeonghae

Pyeonghae proper noun: a town in North Gyeongsang, South Korea, formerly important as a harbor.

Proper noun

Pyeonghae

  1. A town in North Gyeongsang, South Korea, formerly important as a harbor.
    • Over the mountains to the east of Samgun Village, in North Kyongsang Province, in the particularly ill-circumstanced village of Pyonghae, village leader Kim Ju Shik sought in vain to reforest surrounding hillsides through local investment and effort until a typhoon struck and left washed-away homes...[1977, Michael Keon, “The Climate of Confidence”, in Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98
    • The area has two notable mountains—Mt. Paekamsan (3,020 feet), inland from the coastal town of Pyeonghae, where you can take in Paekam Hot Springs on the same trip; and, Mt. Taebaeksan (4,700 feet), inland from the coastal town of Chukbyon, with the option of visiting Tokgu Hot Springs on your...1983, “East Coastal Area”, in James Louttit, editor, Fodor's Korea, 1st edition, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 92

Examples of Pyeonghae in a sentence

  • Paekamsan (3,020 feet), inland from the coastal town of Pyeonghae, where you can take in Paekam Hot Springs on the same trip; and, Mt.1983, “East Coastal Area”, in James Louttit, editor, Fodor's Korea, 1st edition, New York: Fodor's Travel Guides, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 92:
  • When we reached the water, near Pyeonghae, we merged onto a road that ran along the coast and headed south.2016, Mark Dake, chapter 21, in South Korea: The Enigmatic Peninsula, Toronto: Dundrun Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 299:

Forms of Pyeonghae

alternative formP'yŏnghae
alternative formPyonghae
alternative formPingai
alternative formPing-hai

Origin of Pyeonghae

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 평해(平海) (Pyeonghae).

Questions about Pyeonghae

What does Pyeonghae mean?
Pyeonghae means a town in North Gyeongsang, South Korea, formerly important as a harbor.
How do you use Pyeonghae in a sentence?
Paekamsan (3,020 feet), inland from the coastal town of Pyeonghae, where you can take in Paekam Hot Springs on the same trip; and, Mt.
What part of speech is Pyeonghae?
Pyeonghae is a proper noun.

Words near Pyeonghae in the dictionary

  1. pyeong
  2. Pyeong Chang
  3. Pyeong-Chang
  4. Pyeongan
  5. Pyeongchang
  6. Pyeonghae
  7. Pyeongtaek
  8. Pyeongyang
  9. pyes
  10. pyet
  11. pyets

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