Jeongseon
Jeongseon is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea. It is famous as the hometown of "Jeongseon Arirang," a traditional Korean folksong. It is also the hometown of actor Won Bin and footballer Seol Ki-hyeon.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 46,400 residents
- Description: administrative division of South Korea
- Also known as: “Changson”, “Jeongseon County”, “Jeongseon-gun”, and “Seizen-gun”
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jeongseon station.
Jeongseon station
Railway station
Photo: KIYOUNG KIM, CC BY 2.0.
Jeongseon station is a railway station on the Jeongseon Line in Jeongseon, Gangwon, South Korea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jeongseon-eup.
Jeongseon-eup
Town
Jeongseon-eup is a town in Jeongseon County, Gangwon Province, South Korea. It is famous for the three day "Jeongseon Arirang Festival," held every fall.
Jeongseon
- Categories: county of South Korea and locality
- Location: Gangwon, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.3805° or 37° 22′ 50″ northLongitude
128.6609° or 128° 39′ 39″ eastPopulation
46,400Elevation
676 metres (2,218 feet)United Nations Location Code
KR JSEOpen location code
8Q9C9MJ6+59OpenStreetMap ID
node 358897037OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Jeongseon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “محافظة جونغسون”
- Armenian: “Ջոնգսոն”
- Catalan: “Jeongseon”
- Cebuano: “Jeongseon-gun”
- Chinese: “Jeongseon Kūn”
- Chinese: “旌善”
- Chinese: “旌善郡”
- Czech: “Čongson”
- Czech: “okres Čongson”
- Danish: “Jeongseon-gun”
- Dutch: “Jeongseon”
- French: “district de Jeongseon”
- French: “District de Jeongseon”
- French: “Jeongseon”
- German: “Jeongseon-gun”
- German: “Jeongseon”
- Greek: “Τζόνγκσον”
- Hakka Chinese: “Jeongseon Khiun”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tsin-san-khiùn”
- Hebrew: “מחוז ג’ונגסון”
- Indonesian: “Jeongseon”
- Indonesian: “Kabupaten Jeongseon”
- Italian: “Contea di Jeongseon”
- Italian: “Jeongseon”
- Japanese: “旌善郡”
- Javanese: “Jeongseon”
- Korean: “Chŏngsŏn-gun”
- Korean: “Jeongseon-gun”
- Korean: “정선”
- Korean: “정선군”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jeongseon Kūn”
- Mongolian: “Чонсонь-гүнь”
- Northern Frisian: “Jeongseon (Lunkreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Jeongseon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jeongseon”
- Norwegian: “Jeongseon”
- Persian: “شهرستان جئونگسئون”
- Persian: “شهرستان جونگسون”
- Polish: “Chŏngsŏn-gun”
- Polish: “Chŏngsŏn”
- Polish: “Jeongseon”
- Romanian: “Jeongseon”
- Russian: “Чонсон”
- Spanish: “Jeongseon”
- Spanish: “Joengseon”
- Swedish: “Jeongseon-gun”
- Thai: “อำเภอช็องซ็อน”
- Turkish: “Jeongseon”
- Ukrainian: “Чонсон”
- Urdu: “جیونگسئون کاؤنٹی”
- Vietnamese: “Jeongseon”
- Welsh: “Sir Jeongseon”
- Yue Chinese: “旌善”
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