Chagang

See also: chágāng, chágǎng, and chàgǎng

English

Alternative forms

• Jagang

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 자강도(慈江道) (Jagangdo).

Proper noun

Chagang

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Kanggye.
   • 1976 May, Nena Vreeland, Rinn-Sup Shinn, “Industry”, in Area Handbook for North Korea‎^[1], 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 282:

     In the late 1960s or early 1970s the Unbong hydroelectric plant was constructed at Chasong on the Yalu River in Chagang Province, with an installed generating capacity of 400,000 kilowatts.

   • 1997 October 19, Keith B. Richburg, “Beyond a Wall of Secrecy, Devastation”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 September 2000, page A01‎^[3]:

     Last week, U.S. Rep. Tony P. Hall (D-Ohio) and this correspondent were permitted an unusual look behind the regime's wall of secrecy, traveling into areas rarely seen by outsiders, and never by an American journalist. In addition to Hamhung, which we reached in an old Soviet-made helicopter, we also took a 3 1/2-hour drive north from Pyongyang on the country's main north-south highway into the rugged mountains of Chagang province to the small town of Tongsin, stopping briefly along the way in a slightly larger town, Huichon.

   • 2005 June 14, Tony Banbury, “Hungry, and getting desperate”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 November 2023, Opinion‎^[5]:

     On a recent visit to North Korea, I was welcomed into a modest apartment by a family in Huichon city, Chagang Province. Its four members lived on a diet of government-supplied corn and acorns foraged in nearby woodland.

   • 2015 December 4, Eric Talmadge, “North Korea hunkers down for harsh winter”, in AP News‎^[6], archived from the original on 02 September 2023‎^[7]:

     Darlene Tymo, the WFP’s country director in North Korea, said that although official statistics from the North Korean government are not out yet, the main harvest of the year is believed to have been worse than last year and that could mean especially remote and impoverished areas — particularly the mountainous provinces of Chagang and Ryanggang along the border with China — could be looking at a harsher than usual winter ahead.

   • 2017, Daniel Tudor, quoting Je Son Lee, “Pyongyang vs. the Rest”, in Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk about their Lives inside the World's Most Secretive Nation‎^[8], Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 101:

     Chagang Province was not that far away from my province, but they spoke with a very different accent. People in my hometown sound very abrupt and stern. But people in Chagang Province speak very gently, which makes people feel comfortable.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Chagang.

Translations

province of North Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 慈江道 (zh) (Cíjiāng Dào)

• Korean: 자강도 (jagangdo)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (2008), “Chagang”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[9], 2nd edition, volume 1, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 714, column 2