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Nampo (näm`pô), formerly Chinnampo (chĭn-näm`pô), city (1993 pop. 731,448), W North Korea, on Korea Bay (or West Korea Bay). It is the port city for Pyongyang and is also a leading metallurgical center. Other industries include shipbuilding, glassmaking, and electrode manufacturing.

Nampo

(Chinnampo), a city in the northwestern People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, in Pyongan-namdo Province. Population, more than 100,000 (1965). Railroad station. Situated at the mouth of the Taedong-gang, Nampo serves as the outer harbor for Pyongyang on the Yellow Sea. The city is a center for nonferrous metallurgy; zinc and copper are among the metals smelted. Among Nampo’s other industries are machine building (including shipyards), glass, silk weaving, flour milling, and fishing.

Nampo

a group of three mountainous archipelagoes (the Izu, Bonin, and Volcano islands) that extends for about 2,200 km and separates the Philippine Sea from the northwestern Pacific Ocean. In the east they border on the Izu-Bonin and Volcano deep-sea troughs. The islands belong to Japan. The maximum elevation is 969 m (Minami-Iwo Jima Volcano in the Volcano Islands). The islands have been formed by volcanic and partially coral superstructures on an underwater ridge linking the Japanese and Mariana mountain-island arcs. There are many active volcanoes.

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No references found	OPERATION STOCKHOLM FROMmovers and shakers to petty deal-Stockholm and Nampo -millions of pounds of drugs were seized. We bagged the lot! Why police are celebrating a record year in drugs ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England) Since it left the western North Korean port of Nampo on June 17, the Kang Nam 1 has been shadowed by a US Navy destroyer under UN sanctions on suspicion of carrying missiles or related parts. China 'deeply committed' to North Korea sanctions: US official by AFP / AFP American Edition Certain foreign news agencies have been spreading rumours these days about a DPRK (North Korea)-owned cargo vessel, Kang Nam 1, which left Nampo port, North Korea for Myanmar on June 17," the New Light of Myanmar newspaper said. Myanmar says no news on tracked NKorean ship by AFP / AFP Asian Edition	Nameisis names namespace Namestnik Nametkin, Nikolai Nametkin, Nikolai Sergeevich Nametkin, Sergei Nametkin, Sergei Semenovich Namhoi Namib Namib Desert Namibe Namibia Namibia Heroes Day Namier Namier, Lewis Bernstein Namier, Sir Lewis Bernstein Namik Kemal Naming naming fiascos naming service Namora Goncalves, Fernando Namora Gonçalves, Fernando Nampa Nampeyo, Dextra Quotskuyva Nampo Nampula Namsaraev, Khotsa Namsaraev, Khotsa Namsaraevich Namsen River Namsos Namtu Namur Namurian Namurian Stage Namyn Amdral Namzhil Baldano Namzhil Garmaevich Baldano NaN Nan Chao Nan Ling Nan Shan Nana Nana Sahib Nanai Nanaimo Nanak Nanakusa Matsuri Nancarrow, Conlon Nance County Nanchang	NAMMR NAMMS NAMMSAT Nammu Nammu Nammy Nammys Namn NaMNAT Namo Namo NAMOC NAMOHAE Namoi Namoi Local Government Group Namoi River Namora Goncalves, Fernando Namora Gonçalves, Fernando NAMOS NAMP Nampa Nampa Nampa NAMPAADD Nampeyo, Dextra Quotskuyva Nampho Nampla NAMPN Nampo NAMPS Nampula Nampula, Mozambique Nampure Nampure NAMR NAMRAD NAMRADS NAMRB NAMRC NAMRF Namri NAMRIA NAMRL NAMRU NAMRU-1 NAMRU-2 NAMRU-3 NAMRU-4 NAMRU-5 Namrun Kalesi NAMS Namsa NAMSAP Namsaraev, Khotsa

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OPERATION STOCKHOLM FROMmovers and shakers to petty deal-Stockholm and Nampo -millions of pounds of drugs were seized.

We bagged the lot! Why police are celebrating a record year in drugs ... by Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England)

Since it left the western North Korean port of Nampo on June 17, the Kang Nam 1 has been shadowed by a US Navy destroyer under UN sanctions on suspicion of carrying missiles or related parts.

China 'deeply committed' to North Korea sanctions: US official by AFP / AFP American Edition

Certain foreign news agencies have been spreading rumours these days about a DPRK (North Korea)-owned cargo vessel, Kang Nam 1, which left Nampo port, North Korea for Myanmar on June 17," the New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.

Myanmar says no news on tracked NKorean ship by AFP / AFP Asian Edition