Kwanso
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Kwansŏ (), or Gwanseo, is a region of Korea. It lies in the northwest of the Korean Peninsula, occupied by the North Korean provinces of North Pyongan, South Pyongan, and Chagang, as well as the cities of Pyongyang and Nampo.
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It is catalogued under topics including Geography articles needing translation from Korean Wikipedia, Geography of North Korea and Korea articles missing geocoordinate data.
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Kwansŏ (), or Gwanseo, is a region of Korea. It lies in the northwest of the Korean Peninsula, occupied by the North Korean provinces of North Pyongan, South Pyongan, and Chagang, as well as the cities of Pyongyang and Nampo.
== Name == The name has a number of possible origins. It possibly comes from the name of a region called Kwannedo (), which was west () of the Seoul capital area and developed during the Goryeo period. Another possible origin is because it was west of a Goryeo-era gateway called Ch'ŏllyŏnggwan (); one writer for the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture argued the latter theory was more plausible given the region's distance from the Seoul region.
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