South Jeolla

English

Etymology

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

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^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on February 17, 2015, Asia Pacific‎^[2]:

     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.

Translations

province

• Chinese:

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

• Korean: 전라남도(全羅南道) (ko) (Jeollanamdo)

Further reading

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