Anju (North Korea)
| 안주 시 Anju |
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| Coordinates | 39 ° 37 ′ N , 125 ° 40 ′ E | ||
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| Country | North Korea | ||
| P'yŏngan-namdo | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | KP-02 | ||
| Residents | 240,117 (2008) | ||
 Anju (2011)
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| Korean alphabet : | 안주 시 |
| Hanja : | 安 州市 |
| Revised Romanization : | Anju-si |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Anju-si |
Anju-si (Korean pronunciation: [ an.dzu ]) is a city in the North Korean province of P'yŏngan-namdo . In 2008 the city had 240,117 inhabitants. The city is traversed by the Ch'ongch'on River.
Administrative structure
Anju-si is divided into 20 tong (neighborhoods) and 22 ri (villages):
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economy
Anju is close to large hard coal deposits and has hard coal production facilities from North Korea. The storage sites are said to contain more than 130 million tons of coal. Namhŭng-dong is the location of the Namhŭng Youth Chemical Complex, one of the most important combines in North Korea.
traffic
Anju-si has several stations on the P'yŏngŭi and Kaech'ŏn lines of the Korean State Railways .
See also
literature
- Dormels, Rainer. North Korea's Cities: Industrial facilities, internal structures and typification. Jimoondang, 2014. ISBN 978-89-6297-167-5
Web links
Commons : Anju City - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Yonhap news agency (ed.): North Korea handbook . ME Sharpe, Armonk 2003, ISBN 0-7656-1004-3 (English).
- ^ Chin S. Kuo: The mineral industry of North Korea . Retrieved July 18, 2012.
- ^ Joseph S. Bermudez Jr .: North Korea's Namhung Youth Chemical Complex: Seven Years of Construction Pays Off . US-Korea Institute at SAIS. April 10, 2014.