Jeolla

English

Alternative forms

• Chŏlla (outdated, McCune-Reischauer)

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 전라도(全羅道) (Jeollado). Doublet of Chŏlla.

Proper noun

Jeolla

1. (historical) A province of South Korea.
   • [1896, Vladimir, “The Corean Campaign”, in The China-Japan War Compiled from Japanese, Chinese and Foreign Sources‎^[1], New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, →OCLC, page 61:

     The Government sent some troops by sea on two small steamers to the province of Chölla, and despatched another force by land.]

   • 2023 June 30, “South Korea: Child killed in landslide caused by heavy rain”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 June 2023‎^[3]:

     Evacuations of 350 people have taken place in the southwestern province of Jeolla amid warnings of more heavy rainfall in the south.

Related terms

• North Jeolla
• South Jeolla

Translations

province of South Korea

• French: Jeolla
• Korean: 전라도(全羅道) (ko) (Jeollado)

See also

Provinces on the Korean Peninsula:

• Chungcheong
• Gangwon
• Gyeonggi
• Gyeongsang
• Hamgyong
• Hwanghae
• Jeju
• Pyongan

Further reading

• Jeolla, Chŏlla at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.