Kumgang County
Kŭmgang is a kun, or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. Kŭmgang lies immediately north of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. It was formed in 1952 from a portion of Hoeyang County and from those sections of Yanggu, and Rinje counties that remained under Northern control after the armistice.- Type: county of North Korea with 54,200 residents
- Description: county of North Korea
- Also known as: “Geumgang”, “Geumgang-gun”, “Kumgang-gun”, and “Kumgang-kun”
Kumgang County
- Location: Kangwŏn-do, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Kumgang County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Kŭmgang-gun”
- Chinese: “Kŭmgang Kūn”
- Chinese: “金刚郡”
- Chinese: “金剛郡”
- Greek: “Γκούμγκανγκ-γκουν”
- Hungarian: “Kumgang”
- Japanese: “金剛郡”
- Korean: “금강”
- Korean: “금강군”
- Malay: “Kŭmgang”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kŭmgang Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kumgang”
- Norwegian: “Kumgang”
- Persian: “شهرستان گومگانگ”
- Persian: “کومگانگ”
- Polish: “Kŭmgang”
- Russian: “Кымган”
- Swedish: “Kŭmgang-gun”
- Thai: “อำเภอคึมกัง”
- Vietnamese: “Kumgang-gun”
- Vietnamese: “Kumgang”
- Welsh: “Sir Kumgang”
- Yue Chinese: “金剛郡”
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