Nakrang-guyok

Nakrang-guyok
Nakrang-guyok
Hangul 락랑구역
Hanja
Revised Romanization Nakrang-guyeok
McCune–Reischauer Nakrang-guyŏk
Statistics
Administrative divisions 9 dong, 9 ri

Nakrang-guyok or Nakrang District is one of the 19 guyok that constitute the city of Pyongyang, North Korea. It is located south of the Taedong River, and is bordered to the north by Songyo-guyok, to the east by the Ryokpo-guyok, and to the south by Chunghwa and Kangnam counties.

History

The Lelang commandery was, according to the Book of Han, composed of 27 districts and had a population of over 406,748 people. Located on the Taedong River at the approximate location of modern Pyongyang, archeological evidence suggests that the seat of the commandery had been moved to this district here after the destruction of Wanggeom-seong, the old Koguryo capital at Pyongyang and is claimed to have been original seat of the lelang commandery.[1]

During the Japanese colonial period, the area was part of Taedong County. As Pyongyang grew and annexed many former parts of Taedong County, the area was was later split up Pyongyang's Dong-guyok, Kangnam-gun, and Chunghwa-gun. Nakrang-guyok was officially created as a separate district in 1959.

The district is famous for the large number of Goguryeo tombs which litter the area, many of which were first discovered by the Japanese in the early 1910s (see Nakrang Tombs). Japanese archaeologists Torrii Ryuzo and Imanishi Ryu, in particular, were instrumental in the tomb excavations and in indentifying the Nakrang Earthen Castle in Tosong-ri as the seat of the commandery Over 1,500 tombs in all have been located, with sixty-three alone located in just one district (Chongbaek-dong).[2] However, North Korea claims that all tombs are in fact of the Koguryo period, as it denies the existence of the Chinese settlement of Lelang, claiming it was a Koguryo city-state, and that the thousands of Chinese artifacts merely represent the burgeoning trade that the State of Nakrang had with the Han.[3]

Administrative divisions

Nakrang-guyok is divided into nine administrative districts known as dong, as wells as nine villages ("ri"). The larger five dong (Chongbaek, Chongo, Kwanmun, Nakrang, and Tongil) are further divided in two parts for administrative purposes, which Chungsong-dong is divided into three.[4]

Chosŏn'gŭl Hanja
Jongbaek-dong 정백동
Jongo-dong 정오동
Chungsong-dong 충성동 忠誠
Kwanmun-dong 관문동 關門
Nakrang-dong 락랑동
Tongil-dong 통일동 統一
Tongsan-dong 동산동
Tudan-dong 두단동
Wonam-dong 원암동
Chungdan-ri 중단리
Kingol-ri 긴골리
Kumdae-ri 금대리
Namsa-ri 남사리
Posong-ri 보성리
Pyokjido-ri 벽지도리
Ryongho-ri 룡호리
Ryuso-ri 류소리
Songnam-ri 송남리

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