Cheongyang
Cheongyang is a quiet, mountainous county in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Known for its clean natural environment, it is famous nationwide for its spicy Cheongyang chili pepper and as the setting of the popular Korean folk song "Chilgapsan."…
- Type: County with 37,200 residents
- Description: administrative division of South Korea
- Also known as: “Cheongyang County”, “Cheongyang-gun”, “Seiyō-gun”, and “محافظة تشونغيانغ”
Cheongyang
- Categories: county of South Korea and locality
- Location: South Chungcheong, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.4591° or 36° 27′ 33″ north
Longitude
126.8021° or 126° 48′ 8″ east
Population
37,200
Elevation
75 metres (246 feet)
UN/LOCODE
KR CYG
Open location code
8Q88FR52+MV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cheongyang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشونغيانغ”
- Belarusian: “Чхан’ян”
- Catalan: “Cheongyang”
- Cebuano: “Cheongyang-gun”
- Chinese: “青阳郡”
- Chinese: “青陽郡”
- Czech: “Čchŏngjang”
- Dutch: “Cheongyang”
- Estonian: “Cheongyangi maakond”
- French: “district de Cheongyang”
- French: “District de Cheongyang”
- German: “Cheongyang”
- Greek: “Τσόνγιανγκ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Cheongyang Khiun”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhiâng-yòng-khiùn”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Cheongyang”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Cheongyang”
- Italian: “Cheongyang”
- Italian: “Contea di Cheongyang”
- Japanese: “青陽郡”
- Korean: “Ch’ŏngyang-gun”
- Korean: “Cheongyang-gun”
- Korean: “청양”
- Korean: “청양군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cheongyang Kūn”
- Mongolian: “Чонъян”
- Northern Frisian: “Cheongyang (Lunkreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Cheongyang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheongyang”
- Norwegian: “Cheongyang”
- Persian: “شهرستان چئونگیانگ”
- Polish: “Cheongyang”
- Portuguese: “Cheongyang”
- Romanian: “Cheongyang”
- Russian: “Чхонъян”
- Spanish: “Cheongyang”
- Swedish: “Cheongyang-gun”
- Swedish: “Cheongyang”
- Turkish: “Cheongyang”
- Urdu: “چئونگیانگ کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Cheongyang”
- Welsh: “Sir Cheongyang”
- Yue Chinese: “青陽郡”
- “Cheongyang-gun”
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