north gyeongsang
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A province in southeast South Korea. Capital: Andong.
Example Sentences
- "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 and rock-inundated fields behind it; in disaster's aftermath, the village rallied behind Kim and in two years 41 hectares of hillsides were covered with thriving big-cone pines that will soon bring a forest-products harvest of several hundred million won, as well as physical protection, to Samgun."
- "There have been 40 deaths across the country, and nine people remain missing, one in the southern port city of Busan and eight in the southeastern North Gyeongsang province, the ministry said."
Etymology
Partial calque of Korean 경상북도(慶尙北道) (Gyeongsangbukdo).