Sungho County
Sŭngho 승호 | |
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| 승호군 · Sŭngho County | |
| Korean transcription(s) | |
| • Chosŏn'gŭl | 승호군 |
| • Hanja | 勝湖郡 |
| • McCune–Reischauer | Sŭngho-gun |
| • Revised Romanization | Seungho-gun |
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| Country | North Korea |
| Region | North Hwanghae Province |
| Administrative divisions | 8 tong, 6 ri |
| Population (2008)[1] | |
• Total | 85,624 |
Sŭngho or Sŭngho-gun is a county of North Hwanghae Province, North Korea. It was formerly one of the 19 kuyŏk that constitute P'yŏngyang, but in 2010, it was administratively reassigned from P'yŏngyang to North Hwanghae; foreign media attributed the change as an attempt to relieve shortages in P'yŏngyang's food distribution system.[2]
Administrative divisions
Sŭngho county is divided into 8 tong (neighbourhoods) and 6 ri (villages):
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References
- ^ DPR Korean Central Bureau of Statistics: 2008 Population Census Archived 2011-05-14 at the Wayback Machine (Population 2008, published in 2009)
- ^ "Pyongyang now more than one-third smaller; food shortage issues suspected", Asahi Shimbun, 2010-07-17, retrieved 2010-07-19
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