Hwanghae Province - Hwanghae Province

Japanese: 黄海道 - こうかいどう

A region in the midwest of the Korean Peninsula. One of the eight provinces of Korea. After independence, it became part of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and is administratively divided by the Jaeryeong River into North Hwanghae Province (Sariwon) in the east and South Hwanghae Province (Haeju) in the west.
[Nature]
The two mountain ranges, Eonjin and Mokuak, running from northeast to southwest, are about 1,000m high in the northern part, but most of them are hilly mountain ranges less than 500m high. To the north of the ranges lies the wide Jaeryeong River Basin Plain, which continues onto the Lelang Pillar Plain, and in the south, the Yeonbaek Plain stretches along Gyeonggi Bay.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

朝鮮半島中西部の地方。朝鮮八道の一つである。独立後，朝鮮民主主義人民共和国に属し，行政的には載寧江を境に，東を黄海北道(道都沙里院)，西を黄海南道(道都海州)に分割されている。
［自然］
　北東から南西方向へ走る彦真，滅悪二つの山脈は北部こそ1000mほどの高さをもつが，大部分は500m以下の残丘性の山地を連ねている。山脈の北部には楽浪準平原に続く広い載寧江流域平野があり，南部にも京畿湾に沿って延白平野が展開している。

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