Huichon
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Korean 희천(熙川) (Huicheon).
Proper noun
Huichon
- A municipal city in Chagang Province, North Korea.
- 1997 June 11, Barbara Crossette, “Hunger in North Korea: A Relief Aide's Stark Report”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 November 2012, World, page 8[2]:
- Last week, in a kindergarten in the industrial city of Huichon, about two-thirds of the way between Pyongyang and the Yalu River border with China, the World Vision team examined children who showed all the classic signs of malnutrition, Mr. Natsios said.
Translations
municipal city
Further reading
- Huichon at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Huichon”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World[3], volume 2, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1329, column 3