Gangwon Province, South Korea (kor)

Gangwon Province, South Korea

Gangwon Province, South Korea ranks 12,929th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Western Cape, Elgin, Moray, and Villers-Cotterêts. Memorable people born in Gangwon Province, South Korea include Cho Gu-ham. Gangwon Province, South Korea has been the birth place of many athletes. Gangwon Province, South Korea is located in South Korea.

Gangwon State is a Special Self-Governing Province of South Korea and the least densely populated subdivision of the country. Gangwon is one of the three provinces with special self-governing status, the others being Jeju Province and Jeonbuk State. On the east bound by the East Sea, it borders Gyeonggi Province to its west, North Gyeongsang Province and North Chungcheong Province to its south, and the Military Demarcation Line to the north, separating it from North Korea's Kangwŏn Province. Before the division of Korea in 1945 Gangwon and Kangwŏn Provinces formed a single province. Read more on Wikipedia