South Hwanghae

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean 황해남도(黃海南道) (Hwanghaenamdo).

Proper noun

South Hwanghae

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Haeju.
   • 2011 September 10 [2011 September 9], “North Korea: U.N. Says Video Shows Malnourished Children”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2011, Asia Pacific, page A6‎^[2]:

     A United Nations food agency released grim video on Friday of what it said were severely malnourished North Korean children. The Rome-based World Food Program said it shot the video at the Haeju Pediatric Hospital in the western South Hwanghae Province in mid-August.

   • 2015 April 13, Julian Ryall, “Cracking down on foreign NGOs”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[3], archived from the original on October 13, 2024:

     The organization has been present in North Korea since 1997 and carries out projects to improve food security, water supply and sanitation in the East Asian nation. Agricultural schemes supported by the agency in South Hwanghae and North Pyongyang provinces are improving the quality of seeds, diversifying and intensifying agricultural production and maintaining agricultural equipment more efficiently.

   • 2022 June 16, Soo-Hyang Choi, Hyonhee Shin, “North Korea faces infectious disease outbreak amid COVID battle”, in Lincoln Feast, editor, Reuters‎^[4], archived from the original on 16 June 2022:

     South Korea is willing to cooperate with the North to tackle the disease outbreak, but Pyongyang remains unresponsive to any offers for dialogue, including Seoul's earlier proposal to provide COVID vaccines, said another official at the unification ministry.
     South Hwanghae Province, where Haeju is located, is North Korea's key agricultural region, raising concerns over possible impacts on the country's already dire food shortage.

Translations

province of North Korea

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 黃海南道／黄海南道 (zh) (Huánghǎinándào)

• Korean: 황해남도 (hwanghaenamdo)

Further reading

• Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “South Hwanghae”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎^[5], volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2985, column 3
• South Hwanghae at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.