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Encyclopedia > Gunwi County
Gunwi County
Hangul: 군위군
Hanja: 軍威郡
Revised Romanization: Gunwi-gun
McCune-Reischauer: Kunwi-gun
Statistics
Area: 614.15 km²
Population: 34,293 [1]
Pop. density: 55 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 1 eup, 7 myeon
Image:Map Gunwi-gun.png

Gunwi County (Gunwi-gun) is a county in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... 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 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 can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... 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). ... North Gyeongsang is a province in eastern South Korea. ...


See also

  • List of Korea-related topics

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

External links

  • County government website
  • Open Directory category


Administrative divisions of North Gyeongsang province, South Korea Map showing the position of North Gyeongsang province in South Korea
Capital
Daegu
Cities
Andong | Gimcheon | Gumi | Gyeongju | Gyeongsan | Mungyeong | Pohang | Sangju | Yeongcheon | Yeongju
Counties
Bonghwa | Cheongdo | Cheongsong | Chilgok | Goryeong | Gunwi | Seongju | Uiseong | Uljin | Ulleung | Yecheon | Yeongdeok | Yeongyang

  Results from FactBites:
 
Uiseong - Galbijim (296 words)
71% of the county is forest, and 19% of it is agricultural land.
To the east is the city of Andong and the county of Cheongsong, to the west is the city of Sangju, to the south is the county of Gunwi and the city of Gumi, and to the north is the city of Andong and the county of Yecheon.
It is located in the centre of the province, and with the exception of Uljin, all cities and counties are within 80 km of Uiseong; with the continual improvement of the road system the distances are growing ever closer.
Gunwi - Galbijim (242 words)
To the north is the county of Uiseong, to the east is the city of Yeongcheon, to the west is the city of Gumi, and to the south is the city of Daegu and the county of Chilgok.
The county is much longer from east to west than from north to south, and is somewhat triangular in shape.
The county is located away from the sea and lacks its moderating influence, and the approximately 947 mm of rain that fall every year is lower than the average for the nation.
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