Chŏngju
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| Korean alphabet : | 정주 시 | |||
| Chinese characters : | 定 州市 | |||
| Revised Romanization : | Chŏngju-si | |||
| McCune-Reischauer : | Jeongju-si | |||
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| Province : | P'yŏngan-pukto | |||
| Coordinates : | 39 ° 39 ′ N , 125 ° 20 ′ E | |||
| Residents: | 189,742 (as of 2008) | |||
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Chŏngju-shi ( 정주 ; 定州 ) is a city in P'yŏngan-pukto Province in North Korea . It has 189,742 inhabitants (as of 2008), 89,494 of whom lived in urban regions. 40% of the area is forested. Several islands in the Yellow Sea also belong to the urban area .
economy
The local agriculture is dominated by fruit and rice cultivation. The chestnuts of this region are particularly well known.
Infrastructure
The city is connected both by road and by rail. It is the junction of the P'yŏngŭi and P'yŏngbuk lines of the Korean State Railways .
Others
In February 2011, the city and others in the province had rare protests by a few people demanding adequate supplies of rice and electricity. At that time, news of the Arab Spring spread through Chinese television channels and phone calls with defectors.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2008 Census of Population of DPR Korea (PDF file; 1.4 MB), Central Bureau of Statistics , p. 20 Jongju City (English).
- ↑ Can the 'Jasmine Revolution' Spread to N. Korea? Retrieved March 15, 2020 .