Hoeryong

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  1. 1
    A city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, across the Tumen River from Longjing, Yanbian, Jilin, China.

    "Every year on the tenth lunar month, a trade expedition was sent to Hoi Ryong (Hui-ning in Chinese), a Korean border town, located on the bank of the Tumen River, southeast of Ninguta, where salt, rice, iron, cloth, paper, cattle, and horses were obtained."

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hui-ninghuiningkainei

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"Every year on the tenth lunar month, a trade expedition was sent to Hoi Ryong (Hui-ning in Chinese), a Korean border town, located on the bank of the Tumen River, southeast of Ninguta, where salt, rice, iron, cloth, paper, cattle, and horses were obtained."

Etymology

From Korean 회령(會寧) (Hoeryeong).

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