Chilgok County
Chilgok County is a county of 117,000 people in North Gyeongsang. It was an important part of the country's defenses in the Joseon Dynasty and the Korean War.- Type: County with 122,000 residents
- Description: administrative division of South Korea
- Also known as: “Chilgog gun”, “Chilgok”, “Chilgok-gun”, and “Shikkoku-gun”
Chilgok County
- Categories: county of South Korea and locality
- Location: North Gyeongsang, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
35.995° or 35° 59′ 42″ northLongitude of center
128.4017° or 128° 24′ 6″ eastPopulation
122,000Elevation
132 metres (433 feet)United Nations Location Code
KR CGKOpenStreetMap ID
node 415162548OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyGeoNames ID
1846148Wikidata ID
Q50334
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chilgok County” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة تشلغوك”
- Belarusian: “Чылгак”
- Cebuano: “Chilgok-gun”
- Chinese: “Chilgok Kūn”
- Chinese: “漆谷”
- Chinese: “漆谷郡”
- Dutch: “Chilgok County”
- Esperanto: “Ĉilgok”
- Estonian: “Chilgoki maakond”
- French: “Chilgok-gun”
- French: “Chilgok”
- French: “district de Chilgok”
- German: “Chilgok”
- Greek: “Τσίλγκοκ”
- Hungarian: “Chilgok”
- Hungarian: “Cshilgok”
- Indonesian: “Chilgok, Gyeongsang Utara”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Chilgok”
- Italian: “Chilgok”
- Italian: “Contea di Chilgok”
- Japanese: “チルゴク”
- Japanese: “漆谷郡”
- Korean: “Ch’ilgok-kun”
- Korean: “Chilgok-gun”
- Korean: “칠곡”
- Korean: “칠곡군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chilgok Kūn”
- Mongolian: “Чилгүк-гүнь”
- Northern Frisian: “Chilgok (Lunkreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Chilgok”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chilgok”
- Norwegian: “Chilgok”
- Persian: “شهرستان چیلگوک”
- Russian: “Чхильгок”
- Spanish: “Chilgok”
- Swedish: “Chilgok-gun”
- Swedish: “Chilgok”
- Turkish: “Chilgok”
- Urdu: “چیلگوک کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Chilgok”
- Welsh: “Sir Chilgok”
- Yue Chinese: “漆谷”
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