South Hamgyong

English

Etymology

Partial calque of Korean 함경남도(咸鏡南道) (hamgyeongnamdo).

Proper noun

South Hamgyong

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Hamhung.
   • [1931, Wu Lien-teh, editor, Manchurian Plague Prevention Service Reports 1929-1930‎^[1], volume VII, pages 208–209:

     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).]

   • 2000 February 19, John Pomfret, “N. Korean Refugees Insecure In China”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 January 2024, page A01‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2013 April 15, John Ruwitch, Charlie Zhu, “China's freeway to North Korea: A road to nowhere”, in Dean Yates, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 14 October 2024, World:

     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.

   • 2020 March 8, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Launches Multiple Projectiles in Weapons Test, South Korea Says”, in The New York Times‎^[5], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 09 March 2020, Asia Pacific‎^[6]:

     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.

   • 2021 August 12, “North Korea: Heavy flooding destroys homes, farmland”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[7], archived from the original on 12 August 2021, News‎^[8]:

     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.

   • 2023 March 13, “Pyongyang launches missiles from submarine ahead of US-Seoul drills”, in EFE‎^[9], archived from the original on 13 March 2023‎^[10]:

     Sinpo, in South Hamgyong, is the site of North Korea’s main submarine development center.

Holonyms

• Hamgyong

Translations

province

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 咸鏡南道 (zh) (Xiánjìngnándào)

• Korean: 함경남도 (ko) (hamgyeongnamdo)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “South Hamgyong”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[11], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2985, column 1
• South Hamgyong at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.