Definition of "Hamgyong"

Hamgyong

proper noun
1. (historical) A former province of northeastern Korea under the Joseon dynasty.
  Quotations
  In 1413 the old Koryŏ division of the country into a capital district, five provinces, and two northern border zones was revised into a uniform pattern of eight provinces: Kyŏnggi around the capital, surrounded by the three provinces of Hwanghae, Kangwŏn, and Ch'ungch'ŏng, with Chŏlla and Kyŏngsang in the southwest and southeast, and P'yŏngan and Hamgyŏng in the northwest and northeast respectively.
  1960, Edwin O. Reischauer, John K. Fairbank, East Asia: The Great Tradition‎, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 431
2. The mountain range between the northern coast of the East Korea Bay and the Kaema Highlands which runs through the former province, now divided into North Korea's provinces of North and South Hamgyong.