Kangwon

• Kangwŏn

Borrowed from Korean 강원도(江原道) (Gang'wondo). Doublet of Gangwon.

Kangwon

1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.
   • 1999 August 8, Calvin Sims, “North Korea Sees a Plot After Deaths Of Gift Cows”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, World‎:

     Mr. Chung, a son of a poor farmer in Tonchon, Kangwon Province, in North Korea, said he had decided to donate the cattle to pay a family debt. At 18, Mr. Chung stole his father's cow in secret and used the proceeds to travel to Seoul to make his fortune. He is now one of South Korea's wealthiest men.

   • 2020 September 5, Hyung-Jin Kim, “Seeking unity, NKorea’s Kim vows to overcome typhoon damage”, in The Washington Post‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 September 2020, Asia & Pacific‎:

     KCNA didn’t report any deaths or injuries in the two provinces. But the country’s main Rodong Sinmun newspaper said Saturday that “dozens of casualties” were reported in Kangwon province, south of the Hamgyong provinces, and that officials in Kangwon would be “gravely punished” for failing to evacuate residents to safety.

   • 2023 August 18, Gavin Blair, “Kim Jong-un at typhoon-hit farms as North Korea rebuked over starvation”, in The Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 August 2023:

     Some 200 hectares of rice paddies in Kangwon Province are reported to have been flooded by tropical storm Khanun, which swept across North Korea last week after battering Japan’s Okinawa.

• Gangwon

• kwongan