Gyeongsang

English

Alternative forms

• Kyŏngsang (outdated, McCune–Reischauer)

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 경상도(慶尙道) (Gyeongsangdo). Doublet of Kyŏngsang.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyǔngʹsängʹ

Proper noun

Gyeongsang

1. A province of South Korea.
   • [1890 August, J. B. Bernadou, “Korea and the Koreans”, in The National Geographic Magazine‎^[2], volume II, number 4, Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 234:

     The key to the latter, showing the entire kingdom, as well as one of the expanded sheets showing the Kyöngsang province in the southeast, and the Nakdong river, the most important stream of the land, are appended to this paper, and will serve to indicate the progress independently attained by the Koreans in the art of map making.]

   • 2008, Grace M. Cho, “Introduction: The Fabric of Erasure”, in Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War‎^[3], University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:

     My mother identifies herself as being from the countryside of Gyeongsang, a southeastern province in the southern half of the Korean peninsula, yet most of her life was spent being displaced from her hometown by the forces of colonization, war, rural poverty, and migration to the United States. The town of Changnyeong in Gyeongsang province is where my family clan originated. Although I was born in Gyeongsang, in the southeastern port city of Busan, where my mother relocated as a young adult, I had never been to rural Gyeongsang until recently.

   • n.d., “North Gyeongsang Province”, in Korea by Bike‎^[4], archived from the original on 05 June 2023‎^[5]:

     Though the country split Gyeongsang in half, North Gyeongsang Province is the second largest province, accounting for 18.95% of South Korea. But, when Daegu attained self-governing metropolitan city status in 1981, North Gyeongsang became the nation’s second least populated.

Derived terms

• North Gyeongsang
• South Gyeongsang

Translations

province of South Korea

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 慶尙道 / 庆尙道

  Mandarin: 慶尙道 / 庆尙道

• Korean: 경상도(慶尙道) (ko) (Gyeongsangdo)

See also

Provinces of the Korean Peninsula

• Chungcheong
• Gyeonggi
• Hamgyong
• Hwanghae
• Jeju
• Jeolla
• Pyongan