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Kanggye

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Kanggye is the provincial capital of Chagang, North Korea and has a population of 251,971. [1]

29 relations: Administrative divisions of North Korea, Chagang Province, Changja River, Coal, Copper, Geography of North Korea, Graphite, Hangul, Hanja, Humid continental climate, Index of Korea-related articles, Joseon, Kanggye Line, Köppen climate classification, Kim Il-sung, Korean War, Kwanso, List of cities in North Korea, Manpo Line, McCune–Reischauer, Mining, North Korea, Pyongan Province, Pyongyang, Regions of Korea, Revised Romanization of Korean, Sinuiju, Topography, Zinc.

Administrative divisions of North Korea

The administrative divisions of North Korea are organized into three hierarchical levels.

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Chagang Province

Chagang Province (Chagangdo) is a province in North Korea; it is bordered by China to the north, Ryanggang and South Hamgyong to the east, South Pyongan to the south, and North Pyongan to the west.

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Changja River

The Changja River is a river of North Korea.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Geography of North Korea

North Korea is located in east Asia on the northern half of the Korean Peninsula.

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Graphite

Graphite, archaically referred to as plumbago, is a crystalline allotrope of carbon, a semimetal, a native element mineral, and a form of coal.

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Hangul

The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul (from Korean hangeul 한글), has been used to write the Korean language since its creation in the 15th century by Sejong the Great.

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Hanja

Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate (Köppen prefix D and a third letter of a or b) is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, which is typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) winters.

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Index of Korea-related articles

This is a list of articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts.

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Joseon

The Joseon dynasty (also transcribed as Chosŏn or Chosun, 조선; officially the Kingdom of Great Joseon, 대조선국) was a Korean dynastic kingdom that lasted for approximately five centuries.

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Kanggye Line

The Kanggye Line is an electrified narrow gauge line of the Korean State Railway in North Korea running from Kanggye on the Manp'o Line to Rangrim,Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), primarily hauling forest products.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kim Il-sung

Kim Il-sung (or Kim Il Sung) (born Kim Sŏng-ju; 15 April 1912 – 8 July 1994) was the first leader of North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994.

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Korean War

The Korean War (in South Korean, "Korean War"; in North Korean, "Fatherland: Liberation War"; 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of China and the Soviet Union) and South Korea (with the principal support of the United States).

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Kwanso

Kwansŏ is the name of a region that coincides with the former Pyongan Province in what is now North Korea.

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List of cities in North Korea

The important cities of North Korea have self-governing status equivalent to that of provinces.

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Manpo Line

The Manp'o Line is an electrified standard-gauge trunk line of the North Korean State Railway running from Sunch'ŏn on the P'yŏngra Line to Manp'o on the Pukpu Line.

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McCune–Reischauer

McCune–Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems.

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Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually from an orebody, lode, vein, seam, reef or placer deposit.

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North Korea

North Korea (Chosŏn'gŭl:조선; Hanja:朝鮮; Chosŏn), officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, PRK, DPR Korea, or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.

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Pyongan Province

Pyeong'an Province was one of Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon.

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Pyongyang

Pyongyang, or P'yŏngyang, is the capital and largest city of North Korea.

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Regions of Korea

Korea has traditionally been divided into a number of unofficial regions that reflect historical, geographical, and dialect boundaries within the peninsula.

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Revised Romanization of Korean

The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea proclaimed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism to replace the older McCune–Reischauer system.

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Sinuiju

Sinŭiju; Sinŭiju-si, known before 1925 in English as Yeng Byen City) is a city in North Korea which faces Dandong, China across the international border of the Yalu River. It is the capital of North P'yŏngan province. Part of the city is included in the Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region, which was established in 2002 to experiment with introducing a market economy.

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Topography

Topography is the study of the shape and features of the surface of the Earth and other observable astronomical objects including planets, moons, and asteroids.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanggye

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