Nampo

English

Etymology

From Korean 남포(南浦) (Nampo)

Proper noun

Nampo

1. A city in North Korea.
   • 2012 February 29, Aidan Foster-Carter, “North Korea: The de-nuclearisation dance resumes”, in BBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 29 February 2012, Asia‎^[2]:

     On 28 February, for example, a US Navy ship docked in Nampo, the port for Pyongyang, with equipment for joint searches for remains of US soldiers missing from the 1950-1953 Korean War.

   • 2020 March 26, Christoph Koettl, “Coronavirus Is Idling North Korea’s Ships, Achieving What Sanctions Did Not”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 March 2020‎^[4]:

     One returned ship, the Tian Tong, suspected of transporting North Korean coal to China in October 2019, had been spotted near China’s Zhoushan Island, 600 miles south of Nampo, on Jan. 31 using a falsified transponder signal to disguise its North Korean origin, a tactic used to conduct illicit trade. It returned to North Korea in early February, and has been anchored outside Nampo since at least Feb. 14, according to ship tracking data and satellite imagery reviewed by The Times.

Translations

a city in North Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南浦 (zh) (Nánpǔ)

• Japanese: 南浦 (ナムポ, Namupo)
• Korean: 남포(南浦) (Nampo)
• Russian: Нампхо́ m (Nampxó)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Nampo”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2113, column 2

Anagrams

• Monpa, Mopan, Mopán, NOMAP