South Gyeongsang

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Korean 경상남도(慶尙南道) (Gyeongsangnamdo).

Proper noun

South Gyeongsang

1. A province in southeast South Korea
   • 2016 September 13, Jane Chung, Jumin Park, Se Young Lee, “South Korea's biggest earthquake triggers nuclear safety concerns”, in Tony Munroe, editor, Reuters‎^[1], archived from the original on 20 October 2024, World:

     Park Jong-kwon, head of an anti-nuclear civic group in South Gyeongsang Province, said no more nuclear reactors should be built in southeastern cities like Ulsan and Gyeongju as they are close to an active fault line.

Translations

province of South Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慶尚南道 / 庆尚南道 (zh) (Qìngshàngnándào)

• French: Gyeongsang du Sud
• Japanese: 慶尚南道 (けいしょうなんどう, Keishōnandō)
• Korean: 경상남도(慶尙南道) (ko) (Gyeongsangnamdo), 경남(慶南) (ko) (Gyeongnam)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “South Kyongsang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[2], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2986, column 3
• South Gyeongsang, South Kyongsang at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.