, alternatively Zenranan Province or South Zenra Province, was a province of

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. Its capital was Kōshū (Gwangju). The province consisted of modern-day

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and

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Population

Number of people by nationality according to the 1936 census: * Overall population: 2,416,341 people ** Japanese: 44,154 people ** Koreans: 2,370,853 people ** Other: 1,334 people

Administrative divisions

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

Cities

* Kōshū (capital) * Moppo

Counties

* Kōzan * Tan'yō * Kokujō * Kyūrei * Kōyō * Reisui * Junten * Kōkō * Hōjō * Wajun * Chōkō *

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* Kainan * Reigan * Muan * Rashū *

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* Reikō * Chōjō * Kantō * Chintō

Islands

* Saishū Island

Provincial governors