Manpo

Manpo 만포시
Municipal City
Manpho
Korean transcription(s)
• Chosŏn'gŭl	만포시
• Hancha	滿浦市
• McCune-Reischauer	Manp'o si
• Revised Romanization	Manpo-si
View of Manpo from the Ji'an Yalu River Border Railway Bridge
Map of Chagang showing the location of Manpo
Manpo Location within North Korea
Coordinates: 41°09′25″N 126°17′24″E / 41.157°N 126.290°E / 41.157; 126.290
Country	North Korea
Province	Chagang Province
Administrative divisions	11 tong, 15 ri
Government
• Party Chairman of Manpo	O Myong Chol [1]
Population  (2008)
• Total	116,760
• Dialect	P'yŏngan
Time zone	UTC+9 (Pyongyang Time)

Manpo (Korean pronunciation: [man.pʰo]) is a city of northwestern Chagang Province, North Korea. As of 2008, it had an estimated population of 116,760. It looks across the border to the city of Ji'an, Jilin province, China.

Manp'o was incorporated as a city in October 1967. Earlier, in October 1949, it had been combined into a single county consisting Manpo-myon, Kosan-myon, Oegwi-myon, Iso-myon and Sijung-myon, which were split from Kanggye-gun.^[2] Manpo had first been mentioned in 1424, in the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty. During the Joseon Dynasty, fortresses and camps were built in this area, for which the city is now named after.^[3]

Along the shores of the Yalu River, which various tributaries flow into, and the Kŏnp'o River are the small Kosan Plain and the Kŏnha Plain.

The majority of Manpo is located at a lower height than the rest of Jagang Province, though the northeast and east do have areas of higher elevation, which gradually slopes down to the much lower areas along the banks of the Yalu River. Around 75.6% of the city is covered by forests.^[4]

Manpo has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification: Dwa).

The yearly average temperature is 6.5 °C (43.7 °F); the January average temperature, −14.4 °C (6.1 °F); and the July average temperature, 23.6 °C (74.5 °F). The yearly average rainfall is 947.8 millimetres (37.31 in), generous due to the mountainous terrain.

Manp'o is divided into 11 tong and 15 ri:

Lumber processing and transportation are well developed.

Man'po is connected to other cities in North Korea by road, and by the Unha, Manpo and Pukbunaeryuk lines of the Korean State Railway.

A new trolleybus line opened with its first phase in December 2019 from Kunmak-dong to Pyolo-dong.^[6][7] The total length is around 5 km.^[8]

• Geography of North Korea

• Dormels, Rainer. North Korea's Cities: Industrial facilities, internal structures and typification. Jimoondang, 2014. ISBN 978-89-6297-167-5

• In Korean language online encyclopedias:
  • Doosan Encyclopedia (Naver)
  • Korean language Britannica (Empas) (Map)
  • Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (Empas)
  • Pascal World Encyclopedia (Yahoo)
• North Korea Uncovered Archived 2012-01-14 at the Wayback Machine, (North Korea Google Earth) see much of Manpo's industrial and political infrastructure on Google Earth.
• City profile of Manpo Archived 2016-03-08 at the Wayback Machine

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