Songdo Point (; "

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-Island Cape") is a

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...

headland A headland, also known as a head, is a coastal landform, a point of land usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends into a body of water. It is a type of promontory. A headland of considerable size often is called a cape.Whittow, Jo ...

in the middle of the country's eastern coast along the

Sea of Japan The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East. The Japanese archipelago separates the sea from the Pacific Ocean. Like the Mediterranean Sea, it ...

. It is located in

Sinpo Sinpo () is a port city on the coast of the Sea of Japan in central South Hamgyong Province, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. According to the last available census, approximately 152,759 people reside there. Administrative divisions Sinp ...

South Hamgyong South Hamgyong Province (, ''Hamgyŏngnamdo''; ) is a Administrative divisions of North Korea, province of North Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the southern half of the former Hamgyong Province, Hamgyong Province, remained a provin ...

province.

Names

Songdo Point is also known by its Korean name Songdo or During the

Japanese occupation of Korea From 1910 to 1945, Korea was ruled by the Empire of Japan under the name Chōsen (), the Japanese reading of "Joseon". Japan first took Korea into its sphere of influence during the late 1800s. Both Korea (Joseon) and Japan had been under polic ...

, it was known as

Geography

Songdo Point is a dark promontory joined to the coast about east of

by a low white

sand bar In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material, and rises from the bed of a body of water close to the surface or ...

. It has two summits, which can appear to be small islands when observed from a distance. It is the eastern entrance to the Yanghwa Man.

Structures

There is a

lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lens (optics), lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Ligh ...

on Songdo Point which is active but closed to the public. The American

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national se ...

notes, however, that "the existence and operation of all navigational aids should be considered unreliable on the east coast of North Korea"..

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External links

* , a topographical map of the area around Musu Point. {{Authority control , additional=Q106872186 Headlands of North Korea Landforms of South Hamgyong Lighthouses in North Korea