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Okcheon

Okcheon County is a rural county in Province, , positioned on the vital corridor between and Yeongdong. This peaceful inland destination offers stunning lakeside scenery along Daecheong Lake and the Geum River, while maintaining a strong cultural identity centered on renowned poet Jeong Ji-yong and the county's thriving nursery-tree industry.
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  • Type: County with 51,800 residents
  • Description: administrative division of South Korea
  • Also known as: “Kumgu-ri” and “Okcheon County”
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Okcheon

Latitude
36.3062° or 36° 18′ 22″ north
Longitude
127.5715° or 127° 34′ 17″ east
Population
51,800
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
Open location code
8Q898H4C+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415160984
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1839873
Wiki­data ID
Q50309
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Okcheon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أكتشون”
  • Cebuano: “Okcheon-gun”
  • Chinese: “Okcheon Kūn”
  • Chinese: “沃川”
  • Chinese: “沃川郡”
  • Dutch: “Okcheon”
  • Estonian: “Okcheoni maakond”
  • French: “district de Okcheon”
  • French: “District de Okcheon”
  • French: “Okcheon”
  • German: “Okcheon”
  • Greek: “Όκτσον”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Okcheon Khiun”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vok-chhôn-khiùn”
  • Indonesian: “Daerah Okcheon”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Okcheon”
  • Italian: “Contea di Okcheon”
  • Italian: “Okcheon”
  • Japanese: “沃川郡”
  • Korean: “Okcheon-gun”
  • Korean: “옥천”
  • Korean: “옥천군”
  • Korean: “충북 옥천”
  • Korean: “충북 옥천군”
  • Korean: “충청북도 옥천”
  • Korean: “충청북도 옥천군”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Okcheon Kūn”
  • Mongolian: “Угчонь-гүнь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Okcheon (Lunkreis)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Okcheon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Okcheon”
  • Norwegian: “Okcheon”
  • Persian: “شهرستان اوکچئون”
  • Polish: “Okcheon”
  • Russian: “Окчхон”
  • Spanish: “Okcheon”
  • Swedish: “Okcheon-gun”
  • Turkish: “Okcheon”
  • Urdu: “اوکچئون کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Okcheon”
  • Welsh: “Sir Okcheon”
  • Yue Chinese: “沃川”

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