Kwaksan 곽산 | |||||||||||
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| Korean name | |||||||||||
| Hangul | 곽산역 | ||||||||||
| Hanja | 郭 山 驛 | ||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Gwaksan-yeok | ||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kwaksan-yŏk | ||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||
| Location | Kwaksan-ŭp, Kwaksan County, North P'yŏngan Province North Korea | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Korean State Railway | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| Closed | 5 November 1905 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | yes | ||||||||||
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Kwaksan Station is a railway station in Kwaksan-ŭp, Kwaksan County, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngŭi Line of the Korean State Railway. [1]
Kwaksan County is a kun in coastal southern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. It faces the Yellow Sea to the south. By land, it is bordered by Kusŏng city in the north, Chŏngju in the east, and Sŏnch'ŏn in the west.
North Pyongan Province, written before 1925 in English as Yeng Byen) is a western province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former P'yŏng'an Province, remained a province of Korea until 1945, then became a province of North Korea. Its capital is Sinŭiju. In 2002, Sinŭiju Special Administrative Region—near the city of Sinuiju—was established as a separately governed Special Administrative Region.
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.
