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Wagal-bong
North Korea · Elevation not verified
Reviewed routes
No reviewed route is included. Missing route information does not establish safe or legal access.
About this mountain
Wagal-bong is a mountain name standardized in the 1950 U.S. Board on Geographic Names Korea gazetteer, with Gakatsu-hō and Gakatsu-rei recorded as variants. A secondary current index places it in Chagang; the current administrative placement and small coordinate/elevation differences are qualified rather than silently normalized.
Sources and scope
Historical authoritative exact-name binding with current secondary locator explicitly qualified
- Preliminary NIS Gazetteer: Korea — U.S. Board on Geographic Names; U.S. Department of the Interior Division of Geography; published by Central Intelligence Agency · checked 2026-11-08
- GeoNames Fulltextsearch: Chagang — GeoNames · checked 2026-11-08
- Notes on Oriental Scolytus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) — Russian Academy of Sciences, Zoological Institute · checked 2026-11-08