Chorwon County

Ch'ŏrwŏn County 철원군
County
Korean transcription(s)
• Chosŏn'gŭl	철원군
• Hancha	鐵原郡
• McCune-Reischauer	Ch'ŏrwŏn-gun
• Revised Romanization	Cheorwon-gun
Country	North Korea
Province	Kangwŏn Province
Administrative divisions	1 ŭp, 36 ri
Area
• Total	457 km2 (176 sq mi)
Population  (2008 census)
• Total	62,418
• Density	140/km2 (350/sq mi)

Ch'ŏrwŏn County ([ˈtsʰɔɾwɔn‿ɡun]) is a kun, or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. Portions of it were once a single county together with the county of the same name in South Korea; other portions were added from neighbouring counties in the 1952 reorganization of local governments.^[1] After the initial division of Korea, the entire county lay to the Northern side of the dividing line, but in the course of the Korean War part of the county was taken by the South.