Pyongan

Borrowed from Korean 평안(平安) (Pyeong'an).

• enPR: pyôngʹänʹ

Pyongan

1. (historical) One of the Eight Provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty.
   • [1866 May 28, correspondant at Peking, “THE WEST COAST OF COREA.”, in The London and China Telegraph‎, volume VIII, number 210, →OCLC, page 284, column 1:

     The West Coast line is exceedingly irregular. The Province of P’ing An, starting from the mouth of the Ya-lu River, on which stands the emporium of I-chou, extends for the larger half southward, then trending eastward, forms a large estuary, the southern side of which again pushes out some distance westerly.]

   • [1885, Edward P. Vining, quoting J. Klaproth, “Researches regarding the Country of Fu-sang, mentioned in Chinese Books, and erroneously supposed to be a Part of America”, in An Inglorious Columbus: or, Evidence that Hwui Shǎn and a Party of Buddhist Monks from Afghanistan Discovered America in the Fifth Century, A.D.‎, D. Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 43:

     Next, the Chinese text says that they set forth from the district of Lo-lang, which is situated not in Leao-tung, but in Corea, and of which the capital is the present city of Pʽing-jang (in d’Auville’s map, Ping-yang), situated upon the northern bank of the Ta-tʽung-kiang, or Pʽai-shue, a river of the province of Pʽing-ngan, which, in great part, in the time of the dynasty of Han, formed the district of Lo-lang.]

   • 1966, Roy E. Shearer, “Comparison of Geographical Sections of Korean Presbyterian Church Growth”, in Wildfire: Church Growth in Korea‎, Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 119:

     Since 1887, the northern part of Pyongan Province had been repeatedly visited by missionaries. On those early visits they were particularly interested in Euiju on the border.

• (province): North Pyongan, South Pyongan

• Ping'an