Hwanghae
Hwanghae Province was one of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon era. Hwanghae was located in the northwest of Korea. The provincial capital was Haeju.
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Hwanghae
- Type: administrative territorial entity
- Description: historical Korean province
- Also known as: “Haeso”, “Hoàng Hải đạo”, “Hwanghae Province”, “Hwanghaedo”, “Kokaido”, “Kōkaidō”, “Хванхедо”, “הוואנג-הה”, “הוונג-הה”, and “해서 지방”
- Category: territory
- Location: North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
38.13° or 38° 7′ 48″ north
Longitude of center
125.65° or 125° 39′ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Hwanghae” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هوانغهاي”
- Belarusian: “Хванхэ”
- Catalan: “Hwanghae”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای ھوانگھێی”
- Chinese: “黃海道”
- Chinese: “黄海道”
- Czech: “Hwanghä”
- Dutch: “Hwanghae”
- French: “Hwanghae”
- German: “Hwanghae-do”
- Hebrew: “הואנג-הה”
- Hungarian: “Hvanghe”
- Indonesian: “Hwanghae”
- Italian: “Hwanghae”
- Japanese: “黄海道”
- Korean: “황해도”
- Malay: “Wilayah Hwanghae”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hwanghae Tō”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hwanghae”
- Norwegian: “Hwanghae”
- Persian: “استان هوانگهه”
- Polish: “Hwanghe”
- Russian: “Хванхэдо”
- Slovenian: “Hwanghae”
- Spanish: “Hwanghae”
- Turkish: “Hwanghae”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Хванхе”
- Urdu: “ہوانگہائے”
- Vietnamese: “Hwanghae”
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