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Encyclopedia > Jeongseon County
Jeongseon County
Hangul: 정선군
Hanja: 旌善郡
Revised Romanization: Jeongseon-gun
McCune-Reischauer: Chŏngsŏn-gun
Statistics
Area: 1,220.62 km²
Population: 51,734(2000)
Pop. density: 21 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 4 eup, 5 myeon
Image:Map Jeongseon-gun.PNG

Jeongseon County (Jeongseon-gun) is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea. It is famous as the hometown of the Jeongseon Arirang, a traditional Korean folksong. Official logo of Jeongseon County, South Korea. ... 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. ... Arirang is arguably the most popular and best known Korean folk song, both inside and outside Korea. ...


See also

This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ... South Korea is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass. ...

External links

  • Jeongseon 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

  Results from FactBites:
 
Welcome to Jeongseon (352 words)
The second election of Jeongseon county was in August, 1956, and resulted in 68 Congressmen from 6 townships.
In June of 1995, 9 Congressmen held the 2nd Congress of Jeongseon county.
Congressman Song Gae Ho, was elected leader of the county in the second half of the 3rd congress of Jeongseon county in 1999.
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