Wiwon County
Wiwŏn County is a kun, or county, in northern Chagang province, North Korea. It stands across the Yalu River from the People's Republic of China. It was originally part of North P'yŏngan province, but was annexed to Chagang in 1954.- Type: county of North Korea with 60,200 residents
- Description: county of North Korea
- Also known as: “Wiwŏn County”, “Wiwon-gun”, and “Wiwon-kun”
Wiwon County
- Location: Chagang, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Wiwon County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Wiwŏn-gun”
- Chechen: “Вивон”
- Chinese: “Wiwŏn Kūn”
- Chinese: “渭原”
- Chinese: “渭原郡”
- Greek: “Ουίουον-γκουν”
- Hungarian: “Üvon”
- Japanese: “渭原郡”
- Korean: “위원”
- Korean: “위원군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wiwŏn Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wiwon”
- Norwegian: “Wiwon”
- Polish: “Wiwŏn”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Wiwon”
- Russian: “Вивон”
- Swedish: “Wiwŏn-gun”
- Vietnamese: “Wiwon”
- Welsh: “Sir Wiwon”
- Yue Chinese: “渭原”
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