Songwon County

Songwŏn County is a kun, or county, in southwestern Chagang province, . It borders and Kop'ung counties to the north, Tongsin to the east, and to the south, as well as North P'yŏngan's Tongchang county to the west.
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  • Type: county of North Korea with 38,100 residents
  • Description: county of North Korea
  • Also known as: “Songwon-gun” and “Songwon-kun”

Songwon County

Latitude
40.3664° or 40° 21′ 59″ north
Longitude
125.9605° or 125° 57′ 38″ east
Population
38,100
Elevation
512 metres (1,680 feet)
Open location code
8QG79X86+H5
Geo­Names ID
2040482
Wiki­data ID
Q705457
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Songwon County” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Songwŏn-gun”
  • Chinese: “Songwŏn Kūn”
  • Chinese: “松源”
  • Chinese: “松源郡”
  • Greek: “Σόνγουον-γκουν”
  • Hungarian: “Szongvon”
  • Japanese: “松源郡”
  • Korean: “송원”
  • Korean: “송원군”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Songwŏn Kūn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Songwon”
  • Norwegian: “Songwon”
  • Polish: “Songwŏn”
  • Russian: “Сонвон”
  • Swedish: “Songwŏn-gun”
  • Urdu: “سونگ وون کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Songwon”
  • Welsh: “Sir Songwon”
  • Yue Chinese: “松源”

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