Ryanggang
/ɹiˈæŋ.ɡæŋ/US/ɹiˈɑŋ.ɡɑŋ/
Ryanggang proper noun: a province of North Korea. Capital: Hyesan.
Proper noun
Ryanggang
- A province of North Korea. Capital: Hyesan.
- Hyesan. The capital of the Ryanggang Province. Material was taken in a gorge, about 1000 m a.s.l., by the River Tuman-gang (China boundary) north-east of Hyesan (1 June).1984, Zbigniew Szyndlar, “A description of a small collection of amphibians and reptiles from the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea with notes on the distribution of the herpetofauna in that...
- The consequences of this are predictably twofold: regional inequalities (reflecting unequal endowments and/or political clout); and sectoral imbalances as light industry (and hence the provinces) struggle to make ends meet. Rare quantitative data indicating as much can be found in a Soviet source...1993, “North Korea in Pacific Asia”, in Chris Dixon, David Drakakis-Smith, editors, Economic and Social Development in Pacific Asia, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 212
- Synonyms:
- Yanggang
Examples of Ryanggang in a sentence
- Overall, both sides of the ledger declined in the early 1980s in every province except one (Ryanggang).1993, “North Korea in Pacific Asia”, in Chris Dixon, David Drakakis-Smith, editors, Economic and Social Development in Pacific Asia...
- In February 2005, Jilin Province’s Changbai County collaborated with Shandong’s Zhaojin Group to invest RMB 200 million in mining equipment in the Hyesan Youth Copper Mine in Ryanggang.2015, Lin Jinsu, “Evaluating North Korea's Economic Policy in the 2000s—Economic Cooperation with China Is an Inevitable Choice”, in Carla...
- In the capital Pyongyang, 10 percent of children were affected by stunting, while in the rural Ryanggang province the rate was 32 percent.2018 June 20, “N. Korea data shows slight children's health gains: UN”, in France 24, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2018:
Synonyms of Ryanggang
Origin of Ryanggang
Borrowed from Korean 량강도(兩江道) (Ryanggangdo).
Questions about Ryanggang
- What does Ryanggang mean?
- Ryanggang means a province of North Korea. Capital: Hyesan.
- How do you use Ryanggang in a sentence?
- Overall, both sides of the ledger declined in the early 1980s in every province except one (Ryanggang).
- What part of speech is Ryanggang?
- Ryanggang is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Ryanggang?
- Ryanggang is pronounced /ɹiˈɑŋ.ɡɑŋ/ (US).
Words near Ryanggang in the dictionary
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