North Jeolla Province
Province of South Korea
North Jeolla Province
North Jeolla Province, officially Jeonbuk State (Korean: 전북특별자치도; lit. 'Jeonbuk [North Jeolla] Special Self-Governing Province'), is a special self-governing province of South Korea in the Honam region in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula. Jeonbuk borders the provinces of South Chungcheong to the north, North Gyeongsang and South Gyeongsang to the east and Jeonnam-Gwangju to the south. Jeonbuk State emerged in 1896 from the northern part of the old Jeolla province, one of the Eight Provinces of Korea. Originally North Jeolla Province (Korean: 전라북도; RR: Jeollabuk-do; MR: Chŏllabuk-to), it was renamed Jeonbuk (a shortening of North Jeolla) on January 18, 2024 concurrent with the territory gaining more autonomy and being classified as self-governing rather than as a regular province. The special bill on the creation of the special autonomous province of North Jeolla is a project put forward by the People Power Party in August 2022 in accordance with Article 6 of the special law on the...
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