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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

Over the weekend, Pyongyang also detained three officials at the northern Chongjin shipyard, where the destroyer was built and where its launch failed.

From BBC • May 25, 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

Still following other men, Shin climbed into a boxcar bound for Chongjin, the largest city in the far north of the country and a gateway to rail lines leading to the Chinese border.

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