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Encyclopedia > Okcheon County
Okcheon County Image:Okcheon.jpg
Hangul: 옥천군
Hanja: 沃川郡
Revised Romanization: Okcheon-gun
McCune-Reischauer: Okch'ŏn-gun
Statistics
Area: 537.13 km²
Population: 56,634 2004 reg. [1]
Pop. density: 114 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 1 eup, 8 myeon
Image:Map Okcheon-gun.png

Okcheon County (Okcheon-gun) is a county in North Chungcheong Province, 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 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. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 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 Chungcheong is a province in the centre of 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

  • Okcheon County government home page


Administrative divisions of North Chungcheong province, South Korea Map showing the position of North Chungcheong province in South Korea
Capital
Cheongju
Cities
Cheongju | Chungju | Jecheon
Counties
Boeun | Cheongwon | Danyang | Eumseong | Goesan | Jeungpyeong | Jincheon | Okcheon | Yeongdong

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Open Directory - Regional:Asia:South Korea:Chungbuk (513 words)
Boeun County is located in southern Chungbuk, bordered on the south by Okcheon County and on the north by Cheongwon County.
Goesan County lies in east central Chungbuk province, with Gyeongbuk province to the east.
Okcheon County is in southern Chungbuk, adjoined by Yeongdong County on the south and Boeun County on the north.
Okcheon - Galbijim (250 words)
Okcheon is located at 127°29′~127°53′ East and 36°10′~36°27′ North.
To the south and east is the county of Yeongdong, to the north is the county of Boeun, to the east is the city of Sangju in Gyeongsangbuk-do with the Sobaek Mountains as the border between the two, and to the west is the city of Daejeon as well as the county of Geumsan.
Some mountains in the county include Paleumsan (팔음산, 762m) to the east as the highest peak in the county, Cheongeumsan (천금산, 464m), Cheongwansan (천관산), Dodeokbong (도덕봉, 440m) and Wolisan (월이산, 551m) to the south, and Samseungsan (삼승산, 574m), Geumjeoksan (금적산, 652m) and Deokdaesan (덕대산, 593m) to the north.
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