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Hwacheon

Hwacheon is a county in . Located north of and close to the border region, it is one of the northernmost civilian areas in .
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  • Type: County with 26,100 residents
  • Description: administrative division of South Korea
  • Also known as: “Huachon”, “Hwach’ŏn”, “Hwacheon County”, and “Kasen”

Hwacheon

Latitude
38.1063° or 38° 6′ 23″ north
Longitude
127.708° or 127° 42′ 29″ east
Population
26,100
Elevation
115 metres (377 feet)
Open location code
8QC94P45+G5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4920826531
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1844045
Wiki­data ID
Q50346
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Hwacheon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محافظة هواتشون”
  • Catalan: “Hwacheon”
  • Cebuano: “Hwacheon-gun”
  • Chinese: “Hwacheon Kūn”
  • Chinese: “华川郡”
  • Chinese: “華川”
  • Chinese: “華川郡”
  • Czech: “Hwačchon”
  • Czech: “Hwačchŏn”
  • Czech: “okres Hwačchon”
  • Czech: “okres Hwačchŏn”
  • Dutch: “Hwacheon”
  • Esperanto: “Hŭaĉon”
  • French: “district de Hwacheon”
  • French: “District de Hwacheon”
  • French: “Hwacheon”
  • German: “Hwacheon-gun”
  • German: “Hwacheon”
  • Greek: “Χουάτσον”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Fà-chhôn-khiùn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hwacheon Khiun”
  • Hungarian: “Hvacshon”
  • Hungarian: “Hwacheon”
  • Indonesian: “Kabupaten Hwacheon”
  • Italian: “Contea di Hwacheon”
  • Italian: “Hwacheon”
  • Japanese: “ファチョン”
  • Japanese: “ファチョン郡”
  • Japanese: “華川郡”
  • Korean: “Hwacheon-gun”
  • Korean: “낭천”
  • Korean: “화천”
  • Korean: “화천군”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hwacheon Kūn”
  • Mongolian: “Хуачонь-гүнь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hwacheon (Lunkreis)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hwacheon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hwacheon”
  • Norwegian: “Hwacheon”
  • Persian: “شهرستان هواچون”
  • Polish: “hwacheongun”
  • Romanian: “Hwacheon”
  • Russian: “Хвачхон”
  • Spanish: “Hwacheon”
  • Swedish: “Hwacheon-gun”
  • Swedish: “Hwacheon”
  • Turkish: “Hwacheon”
  • Urdu: “ہواچئون کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Hwacheon”
  • Welsh: “Sir Hwacheon”
  • Yue Chinese: “華川”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Hwacheon”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.