Tongchon County
T'ongch'ŏn County is a kun, or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. It abuts the Sea of Japan to the north and east. Famous people from T'ongch'ŏn include Hyundai Founder Chung Ju-yung, who is believed to have been born there.Photo: Zaruka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: county of North Korea with 89,400 residents
- Description: county of North Korea
- Also known as: “T’ongch’on-gun”, “Thongchon County”, “Tongcheon”, “Tongcheon-gun”, “Tongchon-gun”, and “Tongchon-kun”
Tongchon County
- Location: Kangwŏn-do, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Tongchon County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “T’ongch’ŏn-gun”
- Chinese: “T’ongch’ŏn Kūn”
- Chinese: “通川”
- Chinese: “通川郡”
- Danish: “Tongchon”
- Greek: “Τόνγκτσον-γκουν”
- Hebrew: “נפת טונגצ’ון”
- Hungarian: “Thongcshon”
- Japanese: “通川郡”
- Korean: “통천”
- Korean: “통천군”
- Korean: “흡곡군”
- Malay: “T’ongch’ŏn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “T’ongch’ŏn Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tongchon”
- Norwegian: “Tongchon”
- Persian: “تانگچون”
- Persian: “شهرستان تونگچون”
- Polish: “T’ongch’ŏn”
- Russian: “Тхончхон”
- Spanish: “Tongchon”
- Swedish: “T’ongch’ŏn-gun”
- Vietnamese: “T’ongch’ŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Tongchon”
- Welsh: “Sir Tongchon”
- Yue Chinese: “通川”
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