North Gyeongsang

proper noun

A province in southeast South Korea. Capital: Andong.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A province in southeast South Korea. Capital: Andong.

    There have been 40 deaths across the country, and nine people remain missing, one in the southern port city of Busan and eight in the southeastern North Gyeongsang province, the ministry said.

    2023 July 17, Frances Vinall, “13 found dead in flooded tunnel as South Korean storm toll rises to 40”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2024, Asia
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    Over the mountains to the east of Samgun Village, in North Kyongsang Province, in the particularly ill-circumstanced village of Pyonghae, village leader Kim Ju Shik sought in vain to reforest surrounding hillsides through local investment and effort until a typhoon struck and left washed-away homes and rock-inundated fields behind it; in disaster's aftermath, the village rallied behind Kim and in two years 41 hectares of hillsides were covered with thriving big-cone pines that will soon bring a forest-products harvest of several hundred million won, as well as physical protection, to Samgun.

    [1977, Michael Keon, “The Climate of Confidence”, in Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98

Origin

Partial calque of Korean 경상북도(慶尙北道) (Gyeongsangbukdo).

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 慶尚北 /庆尚北, 慶尚北道 /庆尚北道
  • 慶尚北 /庆尚北province of South Korea
  • 慶尚北道 /庆尚北道 (Qìngshàngběidào)province of South Korea
French Gyeongsang du Nord
  • Gyeongsang du Nordprovince of South Korea
Japanese 慶尚北, 慶尚北道
  • 慶尚北 (Keishōhoku)province of South Korea
  • 慶尚北道 (Keishōhokudō)province of South Korea
Korean 경상북, 경상북도
  • 경상북 (Gyeongsangbuk)province of South Korea
  • 경상북도 (Gyeongsangbukdo)province of South Korea
  • 경북 (Gyeongbuk)province of South Korea
Polish Gyeongsang Północny
  • Gyeongsang Północnyprovince of South Korea
Cite this entry
APA

North Gyeongsang. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/North%20Gyeongsang

MLA

“North Gyeongsang.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/North%20Gyeongsang. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “North Gyeongsang,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/North%20Gyeongsang.

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