Chongjin

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  1. 1
    A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, the third largest city in North Korea.

    "There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations."

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qingjinseishin

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"There were times and places in North Korea in the mid-1990s, as a great famine wiped out perhaps 10 percent of the population, that children feared to sleep in the open. Some of them had wandered in from the countryside to places like Chongjin, an industrial town on the coast, where they lived on streets and in railroad stations."

Etymology

From Korean 청진(淸津) (Cheongjin).

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