Kilchu-Myongchon Pass

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Kilchu-Myongchon Pass

 

a lowland between the Hamgyong and Sangmae-bong ranges in North Korea. Length, 75 km; width, to 20 km. The terrain consists largely of hilly plains broken up by the terraced valleys of the rivers Myongamchon and Namdaechon. A railroad and highway linking the cities of Wonsan and Chongjin run through the pass.

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