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South Jeolla

South Jeolla proper noun: a province of South Korea.

Proper noun

South Jeolla

  1. A province of South Korea.
    • Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a $375 million experiment: building a Formula One track.2015 February 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A Korean Auto-Racing Debacle, but Hope Around the Bend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2015, Asia Pacific
    • But of even deeper concern to the experts have been the more than 400 seismic tremors since April 26 in a single area in South Jeolla Province, in the far south-west of the peninsula.
      The region has not reported seismic activity since the government first began collating data in 1978.2020 May 20, Julian Ryall, “Could a major earthquake soon strike South Korea?”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia

Origin of South Jeolla

Borrowed from Korean 전라남도(全羅南道) (Jeollanamdo).

Questions about South Jeolla

What does South Jeolla mean?
South Jeolla means a province of South Korea.
What part of speech is South Jeolla?
South Jeolla is a proper noun.

Words near South Jeolla in the dictionary

  1. South Island
  2. South Island giant moa
  3. South Island giant moas
  4. South Islander
  5. South Islanders
  6. South Jeolla
  7. South Jordan
  8. South Kalimantan
  9. South Kanara
  10. South Karelia
  11. South Kelsey

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