Hongwon County
Hongwŏn County is a county in South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. It is flanked by the Sea of Japan to the south, and by the Hamgyŏng Mountains to the north.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: county of North Korea with 143,000 residents
- Description: county of North Korea
- Also known as: “Hongwon”, “Hongwon-gun”, “Hongwŏn-gun”, and “Hongwon-kun”
Hongwon County
- Location: South Hamgyong, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Hongwon County” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Hongwŏn-gun”
- Chinese: “Hongwŏn Kūn”
- Chinese: “洪原”
- Chinese: “洪原郡”
- Dutch: “Hongwon”
- French: “Arrondissement de Hongwon”
- Greek: “Χόνγουον-γκουν”
- Hungarian: “Hongvon”
- Japanese: “洪原郡”
- Korean: “홍원”
- Korean: “홍원군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hongwŏn Kūn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hongwon”
- Norwegian: “Hongwon”
- Polish: “Hongwŏn”
- Swedish: “Hongwŏn-gun”
- Vietnamese: “Hongwon”
- Vietnamese: “Hongwŏn”
- Yue Chinese: “洪原”
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