Meanings
- A province of South Korea.
Eight years ago, the South Korean province of South Jeolla, which includes this sleepy coastal county, cleared 1,000 acres of rice paddies and embarked on a $375 million experiment: building a Formula One track.
2015 February 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A Korean Auto-Racing Debacle, but Hope Around the Bend”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Feb 2015, Asia Pacific1 more example
But of even deeper concern to the experts have been the more than 400 seismic tremors since April 26 in a single area in South Jeolla Province, in the far south-west of the peninsula. The region has not reported seismic activity since the government first began collating data in 1978.
2020 May 20, Julian Ryall, “Could a major earthquake soon strike South Korea?”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia
Origin
- Korean전라남도(全羅南道)
- EnglishSouth Jeolla
Borrowed from Korean 전라남도(全羅南道) (Jeollanamdo).
More words from Korean
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Chinese Mandarin 全羅南道 /全罗南道
- 全羅南道 /全罗南道 (Quánluónándào)province of South Korea
Korean 전라남도
- 전라남도 (Jeollanamdo)province of South Korea
Polish Jeolla Południowa
- Jeolla Południowaprovince of South Korea
Cite this entry
South Jeolla. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20Jeolla
“South Jeolla.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20Jeolla. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “South Jeolla,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/South%20Jeolla.
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