Cheongwon County

This article is about the former administrative division. For the current subdivision, see Cheongwon District.

Cheongwon County (Korean: 청원군; RR: Cheongwon-gun) was a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It was dissolved on July 1, 2014 and consolidated to Cheongju.

Cheongwon 청원군
Former county
Korean transcription(s)
• Hangul	청원군
• Hanja	淸原郡
• Revised Romanization	Cheongwon-gun
• McCune–Reischauer	Ch'ŏngwŏn-gun
Cheongju Airport located in Cheongwon
Emblem of Cheongwon
Location in South Korea
Coordinates: 36°38′00″N 127°24′00″E
Country	South Korea
Region	Hoseo
Province	North Chungcheong Province
Administrative divisions	For present, see Cheongju
Area
• Total	779.06 km2 (300.80 sq mi)
Population  (2001)
• Total	123,984
• Density	152/km2 (390/sq mi)
• Dialect	Chungcheong

Government

The Korea Food and Drug Administration (later Ministry of Food and Drug Safety),^[1][2] and Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were/are headquartered in the Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, which was once in Cheongwon County.^[3]

Sister cities

Cheongwon was twinned with:

• Cangzhou, Hebei, China
• Kikuchi, Kumamoto, Japan