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Kangwŏn

Kangwŏn is the mcCune-Reischauer romanization of Kangwon.

Kangwŏn is the alternative form of Gangwon.

Meaning of Kangwon

Proper noun

Kangwon

  1. A province of North Korea. Capital: Wonsan.
    • The food will assist families working on collective farms in Kangwon Province, North Korea. Made homeless by the 1995 floods, they are sail housed with other farm families.1996 June 14, “CRC helps relieve food shortage in North Korea”, in Christian Courier, number 2490, sourced from Burlington, Ontario (CRWRC), →ISSN, →OCLC, Church, page 9, column 3

Meaning of Gangwon

Proper noun

Gangwon

  1. A special self-governing province in South Korea. Capital: Chuncheon.
    • GOHAN — This town in Jeongseon (Jungsun) County, Gangwon (Kangwon) Province, in five years may be the hub of one of Asia's greatest vacation destinations.2002 April 13, Don Kirk, “Korea's getaway delights — in any season”, in The New York Times (World section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29...

Origin of Kangwŏn

Loanword from Korean 강원(江原) (Gang'won).

Questions about Kangwŏn

What is Kangwŏn the mcCune-Reischauer romanization of?
Kangwŏn is the mcCune-Reischauer romanization of Kangwon.

Words near Kangwŏn in the dictionary

  1. kanguroos
  2. kanguru
  3. kangurus
  4. KaNgwane
  5. Kangwon
  6. Kangwŏn
  7. Kangxi
  8. Kangxi radical
  9. Kangxi radicals
  10. Kangy Angy
  11. Kanhaiya

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Kangwŏn (page history and authors); Kangwon (page history and authors); Gangwon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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