Meanings
alternative Kimpo
- A city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Mr. Kim settled in Gimpo, a city across the Han River from Kaesong.
2020 July 28, Choe Sang-Hun, “North Korea Thinks He Brought Covid-19. The South Wanted to Arrest Him.”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 20201 more example
Han Bok Yeo welcomed me to her 7th floor apartment in Gimpo City. It’s an hour by train from Seoul and a four and a half hour ride by bus and ferry to her real home on Seo-Yeonpyeong Island, a smaller islet that also came under fire by North Korea on November 23.
2011 February 2, Jason Strother, “Yeonpyeong residents waiting to go home”, in Anne Thomas, editor, Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 25 May 2011, Asia
Origin
- Korean김포(金浦)
- EnglishGimpo
From Korean 김포(金浦) (Gimpo).
More words from Korean
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Chinese Cantonese 金浦
- 金浦 (gam¹ pou⁴)city in South Korea
Chinese Mandarin 金浦
- 金浦 (Jīnpǔ)city in South Korea
Korean 김포
- 김포 (Gimpo)city in South Korea
Cite this entry
Gimpo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gimpo
“Gimpo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Gimpo. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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