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North Chungcheong Province
Korean Name
Revised Romanization	Chungcheongbuk-do
McCune-Reischauer	Ch'ungch'ŏngbuk-to
Hangul	충청 북도
Hanja	忠清北道
Short Name	Chungbuk (Ch'ungbuk; 충북; 忠北)
Statistics
Population	1,462,621 (2000 census)
Area	7,436 km²
Capital	Cheongju
Administrative Divisions	3 cities ("Si"); 9 counties ("Gun")
Region	Hoseo
Dialect	Chungcheong
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North Chungcheong is a province in the centre of South Korea. It was formed in 1896 from the northeastern half of the former Chungcheong province, was a province of Korea until the country's division in 1945, then became part of South Korea. The provincial capital is Cheongju.

Table of contents

1 Geography
2 Resources
3 Attractions
4 Administrative Divisions

4.1 Cities
4.2 Counties

5 See also
6 External link

Geography

The province is part of the Hoseo region, and is bounded on the west by South Chungcheong province, on the north by Gyeonggi and Gangwon provinces, on the south by North Jeolla province, and on the east by North Gyeongsang. Chungcheong is the only province in South Korea with no access to the sea. The province is mostly mountainous, dominated by the Noryeong Mountains to the north and the Sobaek Mountains to the east.

Resources

Agricultural produce includes rice, barley, beans and sweet potatoes, but the province is specialized on ginseng and tobacco. The tobacco has been introduced from the US in 1912 and has been transplanted from Virginia, US.

There are mineral reserves of gold, iron, coal, steatite, fluorite, molybdenum, as well as marble and limestone in the northern part of the province. Silk weaving plays an important role.