South Hwanghae

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 황해남도(黃海南道) (Hwanghaenamdo).

Proper noun

South Hwanghae

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Haeju.
   • 2011 September 10 [2011 September 9], “North Korea: U.N. Says Video Shows Malnourished Children”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2011, Asia Pacific, page A6‎^[2]:

     A United Nations food agency released grim video on Friday of what it said were severely malnourished North Korean children. The Rome-based World Food Program said it shot the video at the Haeju Pediatric Hospital in the western South Hwanghae Province in mid-August.

Translations

province of North Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃海南道／黄海南道 (zh) (Huánghǎinándào)

• Korean: 황해남도 (hwanghaenamdo)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “South Hwanghae”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[3], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2985, column 3
• South Hwanghae at Google Ngram Viewer