Kangyang Station

Kangyang
Kangyang; 강양
	Kangyang station
Korean name
Hangul	강양역
Hanja	江陽驛
Revised Romanization	Gangyang-yeok
McCune–Reischauer	Kangyang-yŏk
General information
Location	Onsŏng, North Hamgyŏng ; North Korea
Coordinates	42°55′08″N129°51′09″E / 42.9189°N 129.8525°E Coordinates: 42°55′08″N129°51′09″E / 42.9189°N 129.8525°E
Owned by	Korean State Railway
History
Opened	1 August 1933
Electrified	yes
Services

Last updated April 13, 2019

Kangyang Station is a railway station in Onsŏng County, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway.^[1]^{[ page needed ]}

Onsŏng County is a county (kun) in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea, located near the border with China. The administrative center is the town (ŭp) of Onsong. Onsong is the alleged site of the former Onsong concentration camp, now closed.

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.

History

It was opened by the Chosen Government Railway on 1 August 1933, together with the rest of the Tonggwanjin-Namyang section of the former East Tomun Line (Tonggwanjin-Unggi).^[2]

The Chosen Government Railway was a state-owned railway company in Korea under Japanese rule. It was a department of the Railway Bureau of the Government-General of Korea, whose functions were the management and operation of railways in Korea, as well as the supervision of privately owned railway companies.

Namyang Station is a railway station in Namyang-rodongjagu, Onsŏng county, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway, and there is a bridge across the Tumen River, giving a connection to the Chinese railway network at Tumen, China via the Namyang Border Line.

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References

↑ Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道 (in Japanese). Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.
↑ Japanese Government Railways (1937). 鉄道停車場一覧昭和12年10月1日現在[The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kawaguchi Printing Company. pp. 498–501, 504–505.

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[Hayato-1] Kokubu, Hayato. 将軍様の鉄道 (in Japanese). Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō. ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6.

[Stations-2] Japanese Government Railways (1937). 鉄道停車場一覧昭和12年10月1日現在[The List of the Stations as of 1 October 1937] (in Japanese). Tokyo: Kawaguchi Printing Company. pp. 498–501, 504–505.