Kangwŏn-do

Kangwon Province is a province of North Korea, with its capital at . Before the division of Korea in 1945, Kangwŏn Province and its neighbour formed a single province that excluded Wŏnsan.
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  • Type: State with 1,480,000 residents
  • Description: province of North Korea
  • Also known as: “Gangwon-do”, “Kangwon”, “Kangwŏn”, “Kangwon Province”, “Kangwŏn Province”, “Kangwon Province, North Korea”, “Kangwŏndo”, “Kogen”, “provincie Kangwon”, “కంగ్వాన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం”, “북강원도”, “북한 강원도”, and “江原道 (北)”
  • Neighbors:

Kangwŏn-do

Latitude
38.8354° or 38° 50′ 8″ north
Longitude
127.5147° or 127° 30′ 53″ east
Population
1,480,000
Elevation
920 metres (3,018 feet)
Open location code
8QC9RGP7+5V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1901916996
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1876101
Wiki­data ID
Q41416
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kangwŏn-do” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gangwon”
  • Amharic: “ካንግዋን-ዶ”
  • Arabic: “كانغوون”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كانغوون”
  • Armenian: “Կանգվանդո”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kangwon-do”
  • Balinese: “Kangwon (Koréa Kalér)”
  • Balinese: “Kangwon”
  • Basque: “Kangwon”
  • Belarusian: “Канвандо”
  • Bengali: “কাংওন প্রদেশ”
  • Bengali: “কাংওয়ন-ডো”
  • Bulgarian: “Кануън”
  • Burmese: “ဂံဝန်းတိုင်း (မြောက်ကိုရီးယား)”
  • Burmese: “ဂံဝန်းတိုင်း”
  • Catalan: “Kangwon”
  • Cebuano: “Kangwŏn-do”
  • Chinese: “江原道”
  • Czech: “Kangwon”
  • Danish: “Kangwon”
  • Dutch: “Kangwŏn-do”
  • Esperanto: “Kangŭon”
  • Finnish: “Gangwon”
  • Finnish: “Kangwŏn”
  • French: “Kangwon-do”
  • French: “Kangwŏn”
  • German: “Kangwon-do”
  • German: “Kangwŏn-do”
  • Greek: “Γκάνγουον-ντο”
  • Gujarati: “કાંગવૉન પ્રાંત”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kangwŏn Tho”
  • Hausa: “Kangwon-do”
  • Hindi: “कांगवॉन प्रांत”
  • Hungarian: “Kangvon”
  • Indonesian: “Kangwon, Korea Utara”
  • Indonesian: “Kangwon”
  • Italian: “Kangwon”
  • Japanese: “江原道”
  • Javanese: “Kangwon-do”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗ್ವಾನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Қанвон-до”
  • Kirghiz: “Канғвон-до”
  • Korean: “Kangwŏn-do”
  • Korean: “Kangwŏn”
  • Korean: “강원”
  • Korean: “강원도”
  • Korean: “江原”
  • Korean: “江原道”
  • Latvian: “Kanvondo province”
  • Lithuanian: “Kangvono provincija”
  • Low German: “Kangwon”
  • Malay: “Kangwon-do”
  • Malay: “Kangwŏn”
  • Maltese: “Provinċja ta‘ Kangwon”
  • Marathi: “कांगवाँ प्रांत”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kangwŏn Dô̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kangwŏn Tō”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kangwon-tō”
  • Mongolian: “Канвонь муж, Хойд Солонгос”
  • Mongolian: “Канвонь муж”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kangwŏn (Prowins)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kangwŏn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kangwon”
  • Norwegian: “Kangwon”
  • Oromo: “Kangwon-do”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਗਵਾਨ-ਡੋ”
  • Persian: “استان کانگوون”
  • Persian: “استان گانگوون”
  • Persian: “کانگ‌وون-دو”
  • Polish: “Kangwŏn”
  • Portuguese: “Kangwon-do”
  • Portuguese: “Kangwon”
  • Pushto: “کانګوون-ډو”
  • Romanian: “Provincia Kangwon”
  • Russian: “Канвондо”
  • Scots: “Kangwon Province”
  • Scots: “Kangwon-do”
  • Serbian: “Кангвон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kangwŏn”
  • Sinhala: “කන්ග්වොන් පළාත”
  • Slovenian: “Kangwon”
  • Somali: “Kangwon-do”
  • Spanish: “Kangwon-do”
  • Spanish: “Provincia de Kangwon”
  • Swahili: “Kangwon-do”
  • Swedish: “Kangwon”
  • Swedish: “Kangwŏn”
  • Tagalog: “Lalawigan ng Kangwon”
  • Tajik: “Қанвон-до”
  • Tamil: “காங்வ்ன் மாகாணம்”
  • Tatar: “Канғвон-до”
  • Telugu: “కంగ్వాన్ ప్రావిన్స్”
  • Thai: “จังหวัดคังว็อน”
  • Turkish: “Kangvon”
  • Ukrainian: “Канвон”
  • Ukrainian: “Провінція Канвон”
  • Urdu: “کانگوون صوبہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kangwon-do”
  • Vietnamese: “Kangwon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kangwon”
  • Welsh: “Kangwon”
  • Welsh: “Talaith Kangwon”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوانگون ڈو”
  • Yue Chinese: “江原道”

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