Hongwon is a county in South Hamgyong province, North Korea. It is flanked by the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea) to the south, and by the Hamgyong Mountains to the north. The northwest region is particularly mountainous. The highest peak is Palbong. The chief streams are the Tongdaechon (동대천) and Sodaechon (서대천). The coastal region is level. The temperature differs greatly from the coastline to the plains to the mountains. The mountains contribute to giving the couty a mild climate. Hangul also refers to a word processing application widely used in Korea. ... It has been suggested that Sino-Korean be merged into this article or section. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization 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. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... South Hamgyŏng (Hamgyŏng-namdo) is a province of North Korea. ... The Sea of Japan (East Sea) is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. ... A foehn wind occurs when a deep layer of prevailing wind is forced over a mountain range. ...

The chief local occupation is agriculture. Local crops include rice, soybeans, millet, oats, and potatoes. However, fisheries are also developed, particularly along the coast. There is a small amount of mining, exploiting local deposits of gold, silver, limestone, fluorspar, and scaly graphite. Octahedral fluorite crystals from New Mexico, USA Fluorite (also called fluor-spar or Blue John) is a mineral composed of calcium fluoride, CaF2. ... Graphite (named by Abraham Gottlob Werner in 1789 from the Greek γραφειν: to draw/write, for its use in pencils) is one of the allotropes of carbon. ...

The county is served by roads, and also by the Hamgyong Line railroad.

See also

• Geography of North Korea
• Administrative divisions of North Korea
• South Hamgyong

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External links

• (Korean) In Korean language online encyclopedias:
  • Dusan World Encyclopedia (Naver)
  • Korean language Britannica (Empas)
  • Encyclopedia of Korean National Culture (Empas)
  • Pascal World Encyclopedia (Nate)

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Notes

1. ^ According to both the Pascal and Britannica entries.