Nampo (prk)

Nampo

Nampo ranks 3,450th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Bajina Bašta, Sekondi-Takoradi, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Memorable people born in Nampo include Paik Sun-yup, Choe Thae-bok, and Han Pil-hwa. Nampo has been the birth place of many politicians, and soccer players. Nampo is located in North Korea.

Nampo, also spelled Namp'o, is a city in North Korea which is the country's fourth-largest by population. The city is an important seaport in the country as it lies on the northern shore of the Taedong River estuary, 15 km east of the estuary's mouth. Formerly known as Chinnamp'o, it was a provincial-level "Directly Governed City" ("Chikhalsi") from 1980 to 2004, and was designated a "Special City" in 2010. Nampo is approximately 50 km southwest of Pyongyang, at the mouth of the Taedong River. Since North Korean independence, the city has developed a wide range of industry and has seen significant recent redevelopment. Read more on Wikipedia