Gangwon
Gangwon is a province in the northeastern corner of South Korea, bordering North Korea and having a long coast along the East Sea. Remote and off the traditional tourist trail, the region is relatively undeveloped being 82% mountainous and only sparsely populated.Photo: Kwangmo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
Pyeongchang
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Pyeongchang is a city and a county in Gangwon. The city hosted the 2018 Winter Olympic and Winter Paralympic Games.
Chuncheon
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Chuncheon is the capital of Gangwon, the northeasternmost province of South Korea.
Gangneung
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Gangneung is the largest coastal city in Gangwon Province, third largest overall.
Destinations
Wonju
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Wonju is the most populous city in Gangwon Province, South Korea, with a population of 364,860 as of 2023.
Sokcho
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Sokcho is a city in Gangwon, South Korea. It's quite a sleepy city and is known as a gateway to Seoraksan National Park, which is a 30-minute bus ride from the central hub.
Cheorwon
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Cheorwon County, also spelled Chorwon, is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea.
Jeongseon
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Jeongseon is a county in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea.
Yeongwol
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Yeongwol County is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea.
Yangyang
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Yangyang is in Gangwon. It is a name of a small town and of a bigger county of which it is the capital.
Seoraksan National Park
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Seoraksan National Park, also spelled Soraksan, is a national park in Gangwon, South Korea.
Odaesan National Park
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Odaesan National Park is located in the province of Gangwon-do, South Korea.
Gangwon
- Type: Province with 1,540,000 residents
- Description: State in South Korea
- Neighbors: Gyeonggi, North Chungcheong and North Gyeongsang
- Categories: province of South Korea and locality
- Location: South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of centre
37.885° or 37° 53' 6" northLongitude of centre
127.7297° or 127° 43' 47" eastPopulation
1,540,000Elevation
751 metres (2,464 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1853958141OpenStreetMap Feature
place=provinceGeoNames ID
1843125Wikidata ID
Q41071Gangwon Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Gangwon
- Arabic: غانغوون
- Arabic: غانغوون دو
- Armenian: Գանգվոն
- Azerbaijani: Kanvondo
- Balinese: Propinsi Gangwon, Koréa Kelod
- Basque: Gangwon
- Belarusian: Канвандо (Паўднёвая Карэя)
- Belarusian: Канвандо
- Belarusian: правінцыя Канвандо
- Bengali: গাংওয়ান
- Bulgarian: Кануън-до
- Catalan: Gangwon-do
- Cebuano: Gangwon-do
- Central Kurdish: ھەرێمی کانگوۆن
- Chinese: Gangwon Te̍k-pia̍t Chū-tī-tō
- Chinese: 江原特別自治道
- Chinese: 江原道
- Czech: Kangwon
- Czech: Kangwŏn
- Czech: Kangwŏndo
- Danish: Gangwon
- Dutch: Gangwon-do
- English: Gangwon-do
- English: Gangwon Province, South Korea
- English: Gangwon Province
- English: Gangwon State, South Korea
- English: Gangwon State
- Esperanto: Gangŭon
- Estonian: Gangwoni provints
- Estonian: Kangwŏni provints
- Finnish: Gangwon
- French: Gangwon
- German: Gangwon-do
- Greek: Γκάνγουον-ντο (Νότιας Κορέας)
- Greek: Γκάνγουον-ντο
- Greek: Επαρχία Γκάνγουον
- Gujarati: ગંગવાન પ્રાંત
- Hakka Chinese: Kông-ngièn-tho
- Hausa: Gangwon Thi̍t-phe̍t Chhṳ-chhṳ-tho
- Hebrew: גאנג וואן
- Hindi: गैंगवॉन प्रांत, दक्षिण कोरिया
- Hungarian: Kangvon
- Indonesian: Gangwon
- Italian: Gangwon
- Japanese: カンウォン特別自治道
- Japanese: 江原特別自治道
- Japanese: 江原道 (南)
- Japanese: 江原道 (大韓民国)
- Japanese: 江原道
- Kannada: ಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್ವಾನ್ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ
- Kazakh: Канвондо
- Khmer: ខេត្ដកាំងវ៉ុន(ប្រទេសកូរ៉េខាងត្បូង)
- Korean: Kangwŏn-do
- Korean: Kangwŏn
- Korean: 江原
- Korean: 江原道
- Korean: 강원
- Korean: 강원도
- Korean: 강원특별자치도
- Korean: 까미노
- Latvian: Kanvondo province
- Lithuanian: Kangvono provincija
- Lombard: Gangwon-do
- Macedonian: Кангвон
- Malay: Gangwon
- Marathi: गंगवान प्रांत
- Min Dong Chinese: Gangwon Dô̤
- Min Dong Chinese: Gangwon Dĕk-biék Cê̤ṳ-dê-dô̤
- Min Nan Chinese: Gangwon-tō
- Mingrelian: კანვონიშ პროვინცია
- Mongolian: Канвонь аймаг
- Mongolian: Өмнө Солонгосын Канвонь аймаг
- Northern Frisian: Gangwon-do
- Norwegian: Gangwon
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gangwon
- Persian: استان گانگوون
- Persian: گانکون-دو
- Polish: Gangwon
- Portuguese: Gangwon
- Portuguese: Gangwon-do
- Portuguese: Província de Gangwon
- Quechua: Gangwon pruwinsya
- Romanian: Gangwon-do
- Russian: Канвондо
- Scots: Gangwon-do
- Scots: Gangwon Province
- Sinhala: ගන්ග්වොන් පළාත
- Slovak: Kangwon-do
- Slovak: Kangwon
- Slovak: 江原道
- Slovak: 강원도
- Spanish: Gangwon
- Spanish: Provincia de Gangwon
- Swahili: Gangwon-do
- Swedish: Gangwon
- Tamil: கங்வொன்
- Tamil: காங்வ்ன் மாகாணம்
- Telugu: గ్యాంగ్వన్ ప్రావిన్స్
- Telugu: గ్యాంగ్వన్ రాష్ట్రభాగం
- Thai: คังว็อนโด
- Thai: จังหวัดคังว็อน
- Turkish: Gangwon
- Turkish: Kangvon
- Ukrainian: Канвон
- Ukrainian: Провінція Канвон
- Urdu: گانگوان صوبہ
- Vietnamese: Gangwon
- Welsh: Talaith Gangwon
- Western Panjabi: صوبہ گانگوان
- Yue Chinese: 江原道
- Gangweon Do
- Gangwon-teukbyeoljachido
- Kōgen-dō
- Каңвондо
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Gangwon. Photo: Kenrick95, CC BY-SA 3.0.