Kŏmbullang 검불랑 | |||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||
| Hangul | 검불랑역 | ||||||||||
| Hanja | 剣 仏 浪 驛 | ||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Geombullang-yeok | ||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kŏmbullang-yŏk | ||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Sep'o, Kangwŏn North Korea | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°33′39″N127°19′09″E / 38.5608°N 127.3193°E Coordinates: 38°33′39″N127°19′09″E / 38.5608°N 127.3193°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Opened | 16 August 1914 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
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Kŏmbullang Station is a railway station in Sep'o county, Kangwŏn province, North Korea, on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway. [1]
Sep'o County is a kun, or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. It was created as a separate entity following the division of Korea.
Kangwon Province is a province of North Korea, with its capital at Wŏnsan. Before the division of Korea in 1945, Kangwŏn Province and its South Korean neighbour Gangwon Province formed a single province that excluded Wŏnsan.
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.
The station, along with the rest of the former Kyŏngwŏn Line, was opened by the Chosen Government Railway on 16 August 1914. [2]
The Gyeongwon Line is a railway line serving northeastern Gyeonggi Province in South Korea. The line is operated by Korail. The name of the line came from Gyeongseong (Seoul) and Wonsan, the original terminus of the line, in what is now North Korea.
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.
