Ryongchŏn is a city in North Korea. Ryongchŏn is about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the border with China. It is located in the North P'yŏngan Province. The P'yŏngŭi railway line between China and P'yŏngyang runs through Ryongchŏn. It is the busiest line in the country, crossing the border in nearby Sinŭiju, North Korea and Dandong, China. The area has a reported population of 27,000 and is a center of chemical and metalworking production. Hangul also refers to a word processing application widely used in Korea. ... It has been suggested that Sino-Korean be merged into this article or section. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... North Pyŏngan (Pyŏngan-pukto) is a province of North Korea. ... Administrative divisions of North Korea As of 2004, North Korea consisted of two directly-governed cities (Chikalshi; 직할시;直轄市), three special administrative regions with various designations, and nine provinces (Do, singular and plural; 도; 道). ... Pyongyang (평양 / 平壤) is the capital city of North Korea, located in the bottom third (almost direct center) of the country, situated on the Taedong River. ... SinÅ­iju (SinÅ­iju-si) is a city in North Korea, on the border with China and is the capital of North Pyŏngan Province. ... Dandong (Simplified Chinese: 丹东; Traditional Chinese: 丹東; Hanyu Pinyin: ) is a city in the Chinese province of Liaoning. ... A chemical substance is any material substance used in or obtained by a process in chemistry: A chemical compound is a substance consisting of two or more chemical elements that are chemically combined in fixed proportions. ... Turned chess pieces Metalworking is the craft and practice of working with metals to create parts or structures. ...

On April 22, 2004, the town was hit by a major disaster when a flammable cargo exploded at the town's railway station, causing widespread death and destruction, known as the Ryongchŏn Disaster. April 22 is the 112th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (113th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gasoline explosions, simulating bomb drops at an airshow. ... The Ryongchŏn disaster was a train disaster that occurred in the town of Ryongchŏn, North Korea near the border with China on April 22, 2004. ...

See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• Ryongchŏn-ri in the South Hwanghae province in the southwest corner of North Korea

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External links

• Map of Ryongchon and surrounding area
• KoreaTimes article about the incident
• Timeline showing events in Ryongchon
• Yahoo/AP article about the incident

Coordinates: 39°59′N 124°28′E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ...