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Gyeongsang en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• kyŭng′säng′

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. A province of South Korea.
   • 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. [1890 August, J. B. Bernadou, “Korea and the Koreans”, in The National Geographic Magazine, volume II, number 4, Washington, D. C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 234:
   • 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. 2008, Grace M. Cho, “Introduction: The Fabric of Erasure”, in Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 15:
   • 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. n.d., “North Gyeongsang Province”, in Korea by Bike, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2023:

Forms

Deriveds

North Gyeongsang · South Gyeongsang

Relateds

Hamgyong (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula) · Jeju (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula) · Hwanghae (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula) · Jeolla (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula) · Pyongan (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula) · Chungcheong (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula) · Gyeonggi (Provinces of the Korean Peninsula)

Translations (4)

ko 경상도 (province of South Korea) · yue 慶尙道 /庆尙道 (province of South Korea) · pl Gyeongsang (province of South Korea) · cmn 慶尙道 /庆尙道 (province of South Korea)