south hamgyong
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A province of North Korea. Capital: Hamhung.
Example Sentences
- "The course of the Yalu river traverses a track of country ranging from 124 20' to 128 40' E. Long. and from 39 50' to 42 15, N. Lat., the course of its main stream affording a boundary line on the south-western side of Changpai Mountain (長白山), dividing the southern parts of Liaoning Province from the Korean provinces Kankyo Nando (咸鏡南道) and Hsian Hokudo (平安北道)."
- "Kim Jae Ru, a 67-year-old member of the Korean Workers' Party, worked for decades at the vast mine in Kumdug in South Hamgyong province. As the only major mine operating in North Korea, it received a healthy ration of donated food, a mixture of 80 percent corn and 20 percent rice."
- "A child nutrition survey in 2012 carried out by North Korea with U.N. assistance showed results in North Hamgyong province, which abuts Jilin, that appeared better in some cases than in South Hamgyong, next to Pyongyang. The usual assumption is that North Koreans live better the closer they are to Pyongyang."
- "The projectiles were launched from Sondok, in South Hamgyong Province on the North’s east coast, and flew northeast before falling in waters between the North and Japan, South Korean defense officials said."
- "As North Korea's premier toured South Hamgyong, as much as 300 millimeters (11.8 inches) of new rain fell in some areas of North Hamgyong province on Wednesday, state broadcaster KRT reported."
- "Sinpo, in South Hamgyong, is the site of North Korea’s main submarine development center."
Etymology
Partial calque of Korean 함경남도(咸鏡南道) (hamgyeongnamdo).