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Encyclopedia > Cheorwon County
Cheorwon County Image:Cherwon.jpg
Hangul: 철원군
Hanja: 鐵原郡
Revised Romanization: Cheorwon-gun
McCune-Reischauer: Ch'ŏrwŏn-gun
Statistics
Area: 899.82 km²
Population: 54,040 (2001)
Pop. density: 60.05 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 4 eup, 3 myeon
Image:Map Cheorwon-gun.PNG

Cheorwon County (Cheorwon-gun) is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea. Logo of Cheorwon in South Korea This work is copyrighted. ... Hangul (한글) is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja (lit. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Image File history File links made from Maps of Korea. ... Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is divided into 1 Special City (Teukbyeolsi), 6 Metropolitan Cities (Gwangyeoksi), and 9 Provinces (Do). ... Gangwon (Gangwon-do) is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon. ...


See also

  • List of Korea-related topics

This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ...

External link

  • Cheorwon county government home page


Administrative divisions of Gangwon province, South Korea Map showing the position of Gangwon province in South Korea
Capital
Chuncheon
Cities
Chuncheon | Donghae | Gangneung | Samcheok | Sokcho | Taebaek | Wonju
Counties
Cheorwon | Goseong | Hoengseong | Hongcheon | Hwacheon | Inje | Jeongseon| Pyeongchang | Yanggu | Yangyang | Yeongwol

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Cheorwon - Galbijim (360 words)
To the east is the county of Hwacheon, to the west are the counties of Yeoncheon and Pocheon, to the south as well is the county of Pocheon, and to the north are the counties of Pyeonggang and Gimhwa (in North Korea).
As Cheorwon is both far from the sea as well as located at a high altitude, it has a strong continental climate.
It has high winds and a lot of rain, and is one of the three regions of the country that receives the most precipitation.
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