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Sinuiju

Sinuiju proper noun: a city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, across the Yalu River from Dandong, Liaoning, China.

Proper noun

Sinuiju

  1. A city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, across the Yalu River from Dandong, Liaoning, China.
    • MacArthur had ordered a bombing mission to take out the bridge across the Yalu River from Sinuiju (Korea) to Antung (Manchuria).1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 24, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope, volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 374
    • By this time, Kim II Sung already had the assurances of the Chinese that they would not allow his government to fall without a fight. So he retreated to Sinuiju, on the Korean side of the Yalu, just across from the Manchurian industrial center of Antung, and shouted curses over the radio waves at...1984, Edwin P. Hoyt, “To the Yalu”, in On to the Yalu, New York: Stein and Day, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 247
    Synonyms:
    Xinyizhou

Examples of Sinuiju in a sentence

  • At peak times, up to 200 trucks a day cross the Yalu River to Sinuiju, North Korea.2016 March 31, Jane Perlez, Yufan Huang, “A Hole in North Korean Sanctions Big Enough for Coal, Oil and Used Pianos”, in The New York...
  • 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 Sinuiju

Origin of Sinuiju

Borrowed from Korean 신의주(新義州) (sinuiju).

Words formed from Sinuiju

Questions about Sinuiju

What does Sinuiju mean?
Sinuiju means a city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea, across the Yalu River from Dandong, Liaoning, China.
How do you use Sinuiju in a sentence?
At peak times, up to 200 trucks a day cross the Yalu River to Sinuiju, North Korea.
What part of speech is Sinuiju?
Sinuiju is a proper noun.

Words near Sinuiju in the dictionary

  1. sinuating
  2. sinuation
  3. sinuations
  4. sinuatrial
  5. sinuglaw
  6. Sinuiju
  7. Sinuiju Special Administrative Region
  8. sinuitid
  9. sinuitids
  10. sinuitis
  11. sinulariolide

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