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Wando County

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Wando County (Wando-gun) is a county in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. [1]

24 relations: Administrative divisions of South Korea, Cheonan, Cheonghaejin, China, Gangdong District, Gim (food), Golf, Honam, Jang Bogo, Japan, Jeolla dialect, K. J. Choi, List of counties of South Korea, Nowon District, Regions of Korea, Rongcheng, Shandong, Saengildo, Sinjido, Sister city, South Jeolla Province, South Korea, Taiwan, United States, Yeonsu District.

Administrative divisions of South Korea

South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi 광역시/廣域市), 1 special city (teukbyeolsi 특별시/特別市), 1 special self-governing city (teukbyeol-jachisi 특별자치시/特別自治市), and 9 provinces (do 도/道), including one special self-governing province (teukbyeol jachido 특별자치도/特別自治道).

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Cheonan

Cheonan (Cheonan-si, sometimes spelled Chonan or Ch'onan) is a city located in the northeast corner of South Chungcheong, a province of South Korea, and is 83.6 km south of the capital, Seoul.

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Cheonghaejin

Cheonghaejin (literally "Blue sea headquarters") was a major military headquarters and trading hub located on Wando island, South Jeolla province of South Korea, and established by Korean general Jang Bogo in 828 ACE during the Silla kingdom period.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Gangdong District

Gangdong District (Gangdong-gu) is one of the 25 gu which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea.

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Gim (food)

Gim, also romanized as kim, is the Korean name for edible seaweed species in the genera Pyropia and Porphyra, including P. tenera, P. yezoensis, P. suborbiculata, P. pseudolinearis, P. dentata, and P. seriata.

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Golf

Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.

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Honam

Honam (literally "south of the lake") is a region coinciding with the former Jeolla Province in what is now South Korea.

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Jang Bogo

Jang Bogo (787–846), childhood name: Gungbok, was a Sillan who rose to prominence in the Later Silla period of Korea as a powerful maritime figure who effectively controlled the Yellow Sea (West Sea), and dominated the trade between Silla, Heian Japan, and Tang China for decades.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jeolla dialect

The Jeolla dialect of Korean (also known as Cholla), or Southwestern Korean, are spoken in the Honam region of South Korea, including the city of Gwangju.

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K. J. Choi

Choi Kyung-Ju (최경주,; born 19 May 1970), commonly known as K. J. Choi, is a South Korean professional golfer who currently plays on the PGA Tour.

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List of counties of South Korea

List of all counties in South Korea: There are 82 counties in South Korea since Cheongwon County was dissolved on July 1, 2014 and annexed by Cheongju.

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Nowon District

Nowon District (Nowon-gu) is a residential district of Seoul, South Korea, Located in the northeastern part of the metropolitan city.

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Regions of Korea

Korea has traditionally been divided into a number of unofficial regions that reflect historical, geographical, and dialect boundaries within the peninsula.

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Rongcheng, Shandong

Rongcheng is a county-level city of Weihai City, at the eastern extremity of Shandong Province, China, looking out to the Yellow Sea in all directions but the west.

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Saengildo

Saengildo (literally translates to “birthday island”) is a South Korean island of 15 km² in the East China Sea on which the island's economy is based.

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Sinjido

Sinjido is an island located off the cost of South Jeolla Province, South Korea.

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Sister city

Twin towns or sister cities are a form of legal or social agreement between towns, cities, counties, oblasts, prefectures, provinces, regions, states, and even countries in geographically and politically distinct areas to promote cultural and commercial ties.

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South Jeolla Province

South Jeolla Province or Jeollanam-do is a province in the southwest of South Korea.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Yeonsu District

Yeonsu District (Yeonsu-gu) is a district in southern Incheon, South Korea.

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Redirects here:

Wan-do, Wando-gun, 莞島郡, 완도군.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wando_County

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