Chorwon County
Ch'ŏrwŏn County is a kun, or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. Portions of it were once a single county together with the county of the same name in South Korea; other portions were added from neighbouring counties in the 1952 reorganization of local governments.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: county of North Korea with 62,400 residents
- Description: county of North Korea
- Also known as: “Ch’ŏlwŏn-gun”, “Ch’orwon-gun”, “Ch’ŏrwŏn‘-gun”, “Cheorwon”, “Cheorwon-gun”, “Cholwon”, “Cholwon County”, “Cholwon-gun”, “Cholwon-kun”, “Chorwon-gun”, “Chorwon-kun”, and “North Chorwon”
- Neighbors: Cheorwon
Chorwon County
- Location: Kangwŏn-do, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Chorwon County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ch’ŏrwŏn-gun”
- Chinese: “Ch’ŏrwŏn Kūn”
- Chinese: “铁原郡”
- Chinese: “鐵原”
- Chinese: “鐵原郡”
- French: “Chorwon”
- German: “Ch’ŏrwŏn-gun”
- Greek: “Τσόρουον-γκουν”
- Hungarian: “Cshorvon (Észak-Korea)”
- Hungarian: “Cshorvon”
- Japanese: “鉄原郡 (北)”
- Japanese: “鉄原郡”
- Korean: “북철원”
- Korean: “북철원군”
- Korean: “철원”
- Korean: “철원군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ch’ŏrwŏn Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chorwon”
- Norwegian: “Chorwon”
- Persian: “چوروون”
- Persian: “شهرستان چوروون”
- Polish: “Ch’ŏrwŏn-gun”
- Polish: “Ch’ŏrwŏn”
- Swedish: “Ch’ŏrwŏn-gun”
- Vietnamese: “Ch’ŏrwŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Chorwon”
- Welsh: “Sir Chorwon”
- Yue Chinese: “鐵原 (北韓)”
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