Sooth Chungcheon Province
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Chungcheongnam-do (Scots: Sooth Chungcheong Province abbreviatit Chungnam), is a province in the wast o Republic o Korea. The province wis formit in 1896 frae the sooth-wastren hauf o the umwhile Chungcheong Province an remained a province o Korea till the kintra's diveesion in 1945, thereefter becomin pairt o Sooth Korea. The provincial caipital is Daejeon, which is separately admeenistered as a provincial-level metropolitan ceety.
Chungcheongnam-do 충청남도 | |
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Province | |
Korean transcription(s) | |
• Hangul | 충청남도 |
• Hanja | 忠淸南道 |
• McCune‑Reischauer | Ch'ungch'ŏngnamdo |
• Revised Romanization | Chungcheongnam‑do |
Kintra | Sooth Korea |
Region | Hoseo |
Caipital | Hongseong |
Subdivisions | 8 ceeties; 7 coonties |
Govrenment | |
• Govrenor | Ahn Hee-jung (Democratic) |
Area | |
• Total | 8,204 km2 (3,168 sq mi) |
Area rank | 6t |
Population (October, 2014) | |
• Total | 2,059,871[1] |
• Rank | 4t |
• Density | 235/km2 (610/sq mi) |
Metropolitan Seembols | |
• Flouer | Chrysanthemum |
• Tree | Weeping willows |
• Bird | Mandarin duck |
Dialect | Chungcheong |
Website | chungnam.net |
Chungnam is Sooth Korea's richest province, wi a 2010 GDP per caipita o $47,516, a level o livin staundart heicher than that o the Unitit States.[2] It is bi far Sooth Korea's fastest growin region, wi an average GDP growth o 9.7% in 2001-2007[3] that accelerated tae 12.4% in 2010.[4] Sic rapid growth transformed it frae a maistly agricultural tae a heichlie industrializit economy in the 21st century.
Chungnam is the anerlie province ootside the Seoul Naitional Caipital Aurie tae be servit bi Seoul Subway Line 1, wi multi-million dollar projects sic as New Asan Ceety centred on the newly-biggit Cheonan-Asan Station, that connects Chungnam's lairgest ceety, Cheonan, tae Seoul Station in less nor 30 minutes via the KTX bullet train. Cheonan an Asan are twa closely locatit ceeties in the province, hame tae the laundmerk 66-floor Pentaport skyscraper an the Center Ceety Galleria Department Store, designd bi the prominent Dutch architect, Ben van Berkel.