North Gyeongsang

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyŭng′säng′

Proper noun

North Gyeongsang

1. A province in southeast South Korea. Capital: Andong.
   • [1977, Michael Keon, “The Climate of Confidence”, in Korean Phoenix: A Nation from the Ashes‎^[1], Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall International, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 98:

     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.]

   • 2023 July 17, Frances Vinall, “13 found dead in flooded tunnel as South Korean storm toll rises to 40”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 February 2024, Asia‎^[3]:

     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.

Translations

province of South Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慶尚北 / 庆尚北, 慶尚北道 / 庆尚北道 (zh) (Qìngshàngběidào)

• French: Gyeongsang du Nord
• Japanese: 慶尚北 (けいしょうほく, Keishōhoku), 慶尚北道 (けいしょうほくどう, Keishōhokudō)
• Korean: 경상북(慶尙北) (Gyeongsangbuk), 경상북도(慶尙北道) (ko) (Gyeongsangbukdo), 경북(慶北) (ko) (Gyeongbuk)
• Polish: Gyeongsang Północny m

Further reading

• “North Gyeongsang, North Kyongsang”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.
• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “North Kyongsang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[4], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2214, column 2