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Yujin Point

Headland in North Korea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ30623544 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yujin Point (Korean: 유진단; Hanja: 楡津端; MR: Yujindan; "Elm-Ferry Cape") is a North Korean headland in the middle of the country's eastern coast along the Sea of Japan. It forms the eastern side of Kimchaek Bay (the former "Songjin" or "Plaksin Bay") in North Hamgyong's Kimchaek County.

Dangerous wrecks lie about half a mile (.8 km) SSW of the point.

See also

Yujin Village, its namesake village

References

Citations

Bibliography

"Map of Korea", Pyongyang: Map Publishing House of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 1986.

External links

"NK 52-11: Sōngjin", AMS Series L552, Washington: Army Map Service, 1954, a topographical map of the area around Yujin Point.

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The public source identifies “Yujin Point” as headland in North Korea. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yujin, Point and Headland.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1986, 1954—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yujin, Point and Headland providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30623544. Authority coordinates are 40.677, 129.302. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986 and 1954.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yujin Point” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.