Pakchon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 박천(博川) (Bakcheon).

Proper noun

Pakchon

1. A county of North Pyongan Province, North Korea.
   • 2024 June 25, Bruce Songhak Chung, “N. Korea completes almost 70% of rice transplanting as of early June”, in Daily NK‎^[1], archived from the original on June 27, 2024‎^[2]:

     Meanwhile, the progress rates of rice transplantation near Sukchon County, South Pyongan Province, and Pakchon County, North Pyongan Province, were 58.1% and 68.0%, respectively, compared with the progress rates of 63.0% and 75.1% at the same time in 2018. In other words, the progress rates in Sukchon and Pakchon Counties were 4.9% and 6.7% lower than the rates six years earlier.

Translations

county

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 博川

  Mandarin: 博川 (zh) (Bóchuān)

• Korean: 박천(博川) (Bakcheon)

Further reading

• Pakchon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Pakchon”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2338, column 3