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• Chongjin
  Chongjin

  noun

  a seaport in W North Korea.
• Chŏngjin
  Chŏngjin

  noun

  a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)

Chongjin

American  

[chœng-jin] / ˈtʃœŋˈdʒɪn /

noun

1. a seaport in W North Korea.

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Chŏngjin British  

/ ˈtʃʌŋˈdʒɪn /

noun

1. a port in E North Korea, on the Sea of Japan (East Sea). Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

KCNA, North Korea's official news agency, identified those detained as the chief engineer of the northern Chongjin shipyard where the destroyer was built, as well as the construction head and an administrative manager.

From BBC • May 24, 2025

“My ancestral roots have dried up, and, quite honestly, I feel like North Korea is my home,” said Cho, whose grandfather moved to the northeastern North Korean city of Chongjin in the mid-1920s.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2021

Haishen is also expected to draw near North Korea’s port city of Chongjin late Monday.

From Reuters • Sep. 7, 2020

Also that year, North Korea held Jeffrey Fowle, a 56-year-old public worker from Ohio, for five months after he left a Bible in a restroom at a seamen’s club in the northeastern city of Chongjin.

From Washington Post • Jan. 22, 2016

At Chongjin train station, she wrote, children snatched snacks out of travelers’ hands.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden