Taegwan County
Taegwan County is a kun, or county, in northeastern North P'yŏngan province, North Korea. It lies in the province's interior, and is bounded by Tongch'ang on the east, Kusŏng and T'aech'ŏn to the south, Ch'ŏnma to the west, and Ch'angsŏng and Sakchu to the north.- Type: Locality with 69,600 residents
- Description: county of North Korea
- Also known as: “Daegwan”, “Daegwan-gun”, and “Taegwan-gun”
Taegwan County
- Category: county of North Korea
- Location: North Pyongan Province, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
40.2074° or 40° 12′ 27″ north
Longitude
125.2042° or 125° 12′ 15″ east
Population
69,600
Elevation
188 metres (617 feet)
Open location code
8QG76643+XM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Taegwan County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Taegwan-gun”
- Chinese: “Taegwan Kūn”
- Chinese: “大館郡”
- Chinese: “大馆郡”
- French: “Arrondissement de Taegwan”
- French: “Taegwan”
- Greek: “Ντέγκουαν-γκουν”
- Hungarian: “Tegvan”
- Japanese: “大館郡”
- Korean: “대관”
- Korean: “대관군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Taegwan Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taegwan”
- Norwegian: “Taegwan”
- Polish: “Tae’gwan”
- Russian: “Тэгван”
- Swedish: “Taegwan-gun”
- Urdu: “تے گوان کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Taegwan”
- Welsh: “Sir Taegwan”
- Yue Chinese: “大館郡”
- “Taegwan-gun”
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