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Yeongdong County
Hangul: 영동군
Hanja: 永同郡
Revised Romanization: Yeongdong-gun
McCune-Reischauer: Yŏngdong-gun
Statistics
Area: 845.01 km²
Population: 57,424 (2001)
Pop. density: 68 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 1 eup, 10 myeon
Image:Map Yeongdong-gun.png

Yeongdong County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. The county should not be confused with the similarly named Yeongdong region. 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. ... Jump to: navigation, search 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). ... North Chungcheong is a province in the centre of South Korea. ... This article is about Yeongdong, a region in eastern Korea. ...


During the Korean War, this county was the site of the No Gun Ri incident, in which many civilians may have been killed. Jump to: navigation, search The Korean War (Korean: 한국전쟁/韓國戰爭), from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953, was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. ... At the village of No Gun Ri in South Korea, U.S. soldiers massacred Korean civilians, mostly women and children, in July 1950. ...


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

  • Yeongdong 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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Yeongdong County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (86 words)
Yeongdong County is a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
The county should not be confused with the similarly named Yeongdong region.
During the Korean War, this county was the site of the No Gun Ri incident, in which many civilians may have been killed.
NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Yeongdong (131 words)
For the county of the same name in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea, see Yeongdong County.
Yeongdong is the name of the region coinciding with eastern Gangwon Province in South Korea and eastern Kangwŏn Province in North Korea.
The region's name lends itself to the Yeongdong Railway Line and Yeongdong Expressway, which are major transportation corridors connecting Seoul to Gangwon.
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