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Gangwon

Cheorwon

Cheorwon County, also spelled Chorwon, is a county in Gangwon Province, . It is located right next to the border.
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  • Type: County with 47,400 residents
  • Description: administrative division of South Korea
  • Also known as: “Ch’ŏrwŏn”, “Cheolwan”, “Cheolwon”, “Cheorwon County”, “Cheorwon-gun”, “South Cheorwon”, “Tetsugen”, “Tetugen”, and “Tsch-hŏl-wŏn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cheolwon Police Station.

Police station
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Cheorwon

Latitude
38.1468° or 38° 8′ 49″ north
Longitude
127.3133° or 127° 18′ 48″ east
Population
47,400
Elevation
194 metres (636 feet)
Open location code
8QC948W7+P8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2800319514
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1845388
Wiki­data ID
Q50329
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Cheorwon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محافظة تشوروون”
  • Catalan: “Cheorwon”
  • Cebuano: “Cheorwon-gun”
  • Chinese: “Cheorwon Kūn”
  • Chinese: “铁原郡”
  • Chinese: “鐵原郡”
  • Czech: “Čchŏrwŏn gun”
  • Czech: “Čchorwon”
  • Czech: “Čchŏrwŏn”
  • Dutch: “Cheorwon”
  • French: “Cheorwon”
  • French: “district de Cheorwon”
  • French: “District de Cheorwon”
  • German: “Cheorwon”
  • Greek: “Τσόρουον”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cheorwon Khiun”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thiet-ngièn-khiùn”
  • Indonesian: “Cheorwon”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Cheorwon”
  • Italian: “Contea di Cheorwon”
  • Japanese: “チョルォン郡”
  • Japanese: “鉄原郡 (南)”
  • Japanese: “鉄原郡 (江原特別自治道)”
  • Japanese: “鉄原郡”
  • Korean: “Cheorwon-gun”
  • Korean: “남철원”
  • Korean: “남철원군”
  • Korean: “철원”
  • Korean: “철원군”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cheorwon Kūn”
  • Mongolian: “Чорвонь-гүнь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cheorwon (Lunkreis)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Cheorwon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheorwon”
  • Norwegian: “Cheorwon”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چئوروون”
  • Persian: “شهرستان چوروون”
  • Polish: “cheolwongun”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Cheorwon”
  • Romanian: “Cheorwon”
  • Russian: “Чхорвон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cheorwon”
  • Slovak: “Čchorwon”
  • Spanish: “Cheorwon-gun”
  • Spanish: “Cheorwon”
  • Swedish: “Cheorwon-gun”
  • Turkish: “Cheorwon”
  • Urdu: “چئوروون کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Cheorwon”
  • Welsh: “Sir Cheorwon”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cheorwon”. Photo: Beeniru, CC BY-SA 3.0.