, alternatively Keishōhoku Province, Keisho Hoku, or North Keishō Province, was a province of

Korea under Japanese rule 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 ...

. Its capital was at Taikyū (Daegu). The province consisted of what is now the South Korean

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North Gyeongsang North Gyeongsang Province (, ) is a province in eastern South Korea, and with an area of , it is the largest province in the Korean peninsula. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Gyeongsang province, and remaine ...

and Daegu Metropolitan City.

Population

Number of people by nationality according to the 1936 census: * Overall population: 2,454,275 people ** Japanese: 49,887 people ** Koreans: 2,402,970 people ** Other: 1,418 people

Administrative divisions

The following list is based on the administrative divisions of 1945:

Cities

*Taikyū (大邱) - (capital):

Daegu Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

(대구). present

Daegu Metropolitan City Daegu (; ), formerly spelled Taegu and officially Daegu Metropolitan City (), is a city in southeastern South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; the fourth-largest List of provincial-level ci ...

Counties

* Tatsujō (달성) * Gun'i (군위) * Gijō (의성) * Antō (안동) * Seishō (청송) * Eiyō (영양) *

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(영덕) * Geijitsu (영일. 현 포항) * Keishū (경주) * Eisen (영천) *

Keizan Keizan Jōkin (, 1268–1325), also known as Taiso Jōsai Daishi, is considered to be the second great founder of the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. While Dōgen, as founder of Japanese Sōtō, is known as , Keizan is often referred to as . Keiz ...

(경산) * Seidō (청도) * Kōrei (고령) * Seishū (성주) * Shikkoku (칠곡) * Kinsen (김천) * Zenzan (선산. 현 구미) * Shōshū (상주) * Bunkei (문경) * Reisen (예천) * Eishū (영주) * Hōka (봉화)

Islands

* Utsuryō Island (울릉)

Provincial governors