South Jeolla

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 전라남도(全羅南道) (Jeollanamdo).

Pronunciation

• enPR: chǔlʹläʹ

Proper noun

South Jeolla

1. A province of South Korea.
   • 2015 February 15, Choe Sang-Hun, “A Korean Auto-Racing Debacle, but Hope Around the Bend”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 February 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[3]:

     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.

   • 2020 May 20, Julian Ryall, “Could a major earthquake soon strike South Korea?”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[4], archived from the original on 21 May 2020, Asia‎^[5]:

     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.

Translations

province of South Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全羅南道 / 全罗南道 (zh) (Quánluónándào)

• Korean: 전라남도(全羅南道) (ko) (Jeollanamdo)
• Polish: Jeolla Południowa f

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “South Cholla”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[6], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2983, column 1
• “South Jeolla, South Cholla”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.