NORTH KOREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Korea mean? 

• NORTH KOREA (noun)
  The noun NORTH KOREA has 1 sense:

1. a communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948

  Familiarity information: NORTH KOREA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH KOREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A communist country in the northern half of the Korean Peninsula; established in 1948

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

D.P.R.K.; Democratic People's Republic of Korea; DPRK; North Korea

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "North Korea"):

capital of North Korea; Pyongyang (capital of North Korea and an industrial center)

Yalu; Yalu River (river in eastern Asia; rises in North Korea and flows southwest to Korea Bay (forming part of the border between North Korea and China))

Domain member region:

Yalu River (a battle in the Korean War (November 1950); when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River 200,000 Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back)

Holonyms ("North Korea" is a part of...):

Dae-Han-Min-Gook; Han-Gook; Korea; Korean Peninsula (an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min-Gook or Han-Gook)

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Derivation:

North Korean (of or relating to or characteristic of North Korea or its people or their culture)

 Context examples 

Bangladesh, China, Haiti, India, Pakistan, North Korea and South Sudan are some of the most affected countries.

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