Hakp'o 학포 | |||||||||||
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Hakp'o Station | |||||||||||
Korean name | |||||||||||
Hangul | 학포역 | ||||||||||
Hanja | 鶴 浦 驛 | ||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Hakpo-yeok | ||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Hakp'o-yŏk | ||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||
Location | Hakp'o-ri, Hoeryŏng-si, North Hamgyŏng North Korea | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 42°35′39″N129°45′31″E / 42.5942°N 129.7585°E Coordinates: 42°35′39″N129°45′31″E / 42.5942°N 129.7585°E | ||||||||||
Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
Opened | 5 January 1920 | ||||||||||
Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
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Hakp'o Station is a railway station in Hakp'o-ri, greater Hoeryŏng city, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway. [1]
Hoeryŏng is a city in North Hamgyŏng Province, North Korea. It is located opposite Jilin Province, China, with the Tumen River in between. Sanhe (三合鎮), in Longjing City, is the closest Chinese town across the river. Hoeryŏng is claimed to be the birthplace of Kim Il Sung's first wife and Kim Jong Il's mother, Kim Jong Suk. The Hoeryong Revolutionary Site commemorates the birthplace.
North Hamgyong Province is the northernmost province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Hamgyong Province.
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, with Pyongyang the capital and the largest city in the country. The name Korea is derived from Goguryeo which was one of the great powers in East Asia during its time, ruling most of the Korean Peninsula, Manchuria, parts of the Russian Far East and Inner Mongolia, under Gwanggaeto the Great. To the north and northwest, the country is bordered by China and by Russia along the Amnok and Tumen rivers; it is bordered to the south by South Korea, with the heavily fortified Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two. Nevertheless, North Korea, like its southern counterpart, claims to be the legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands.
It was opened by the Tomun Railway Company on 5 January 1920, together with the rest of the Hoeryŏng-Sangsambong section of their line (Hoeryŏng-Tonggwanjin), which on 1 April 1929 was nationalised and became the West Tomun Line of the Chosen Government Railway. [2]
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