Sakju County

Sakju County 삭주군
County
Korean transcription(s)
• Chosŏn'gŭl	삭주군
• Hancha	朔州郡
• McCune-Reischauer	Sakchu-gun
• Revised Romanization	Sakju-gun
Country	North Korea
Province	North P'yŏngan
Administrative divisions	1 ŭp, 6 workers' districts, 18 ri
Area
• Total	2,807 km2 (1,084 sq mi)
Population  (2008[1])
• Total	159,707
• Density	57/km2 (150/sq mi)

Sakju County is a kun, or county, in northern part of North P'yŏngan province, in North Korea. It lies along the Yalu River bordering the People's Republic of China to the north. Within North Korea, it borders Ch'angsŏng to the east, Ch'ŏnma and Taegwan to the south, and Ŭiju to the west.

The Kangnam Mountains rise in the southeast of Sakju with its highest peak Munsan at 1046 m. The overall terrain is rugged, with only 13% of the county's area under cultivation, as compared to 80% which is forested.

Sakju county is divided into 1 ŭp (town), 6 rodongjagu (workers' districts) and 18 ri (villages):

The year-round average temperature is 8.1 °C, with an average of -10.1 °C in January and 23.4 °C in August.

Livestock farming is important to the local economy; Sakju leads the province in the number of hogs raised. In crop farming, local crops include rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes, gochu peppers, and fruit. In addition, there is a large hydroelectric power station on the Yalu at Sup'ung Dam.

The P'yŏngbuk Line of the Korean State Railway passes through the county, on its way to Chŏngju from Ch'ŏngsu (청수). The Yalu station is used for passenger and freight traffic.

There are eight colleges in Sakju. These include Supung Industrial College, Sakju Industrial College, and Supung Specialized College of Electricity (수풍전기단과대학).

Some of North Korea's chemical weapons factories are located in the city under the control of the Thirty-second Division.^[3]

• Geography of North Korea
• Administrative divisions of North Korea
• North Pyongan

• International Information Research Institute (국제정보연구소) (1999). "삭주군". 北韓情報總覽 2000 [Bukhan jeongbo chong-ram 2000]. Seoul: Author. p. 837.

• In Korean language online encyclopedias:
  • Doosan Encyclopedia (Encyber)
  • Korean language Britannica (Empas) (Map)
  • Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (Empas)
  • Pascal World Encyclopedia (Nate)

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