North Pyongan Province

North Pyongan Province, also spelled North P'yongan, is a western province of North Korea. It was formed in 1896 when the old Pyongan Province of Korea was divided, taking the northern half, and it stayed a province of Korea until 1945, after which it became a province of North Korea. Its capital is the city of Sinuiju. The Yalu River forms its northern border with the Chinese province of Liaoning, Chagang Province lies to the east and South Pyongan Province to the south, and the Korea Bay and the Yellow Sea wash its western coast. The Sinuiju Special Administrative Region sits in the western corner of the province; it was created in 2002 as an administrative entity separate from North Pyongan, though the project has yet to be put into effect. The province is divided into three cities, known as si, and twenty-one counties, known as kun, which the article lists in English, Korean script and Chinese characters.