Huichon
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'''Hŭich'ŏn''' () is a city in the southern part of Chagang Province, North Korea. The population is 168,180 (2008 data).
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Huichon
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ko
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipal City
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Korean
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type
- Chosŏn'gŭl
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info
- 희천시
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- Hancha
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info2
- Hŭich'ŏn si
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info3
- Huicheon-si
- Settlement.image_caption
- Huichon Telecommunications University
- Settlement.image_map
- DPRK2006 Chagang-Huichon.PNG
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- Map of Chagang showing the location of Huichon
- Settlement.mapframe
- yes
- Settlement.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Settlement.mapframe point
- none
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- North Korea
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- Location within North Korea
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- Country
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- 熙川市
- Country
- North Korea
- Located in
- Chagang Province
- Population
- 168180
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- Commons category
- Huichon
- native label
- 熙川市
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- History
- Administrative divisions
- Neighborhoods (dong)
- Villages (ri)
- Transportation
- Economy
- Huichon Machine Tool Factory
- Huichon Silk Mill
- Huichon Hard Glassware Factory
- Hydroelectric power
- Climate
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
'''Hŭich'ŏn''' () is a city in the southern part of Chagang Province, North Korea. The population is 168,180 (2008 data).
==History== The region surrounding the city became Huichon County in 1896. It was originally part of North Pyongan province during the Japanese colonial era. The county was originally divided into nine myons and 35 dongs at the time of the establishment of the newly created Chagang Province in January 1947, but the part of the eastern regions of the county break out of the administrative division to form Tongsin County in 1952. In October 1967, the county was promoted to city status. Huichon was formerly a small village. Since the Korean War and an influx of government investment, it has become a base for electronics and machinery production for North Korea. The region was particularly affected by the North Korean famine of the 1990s. Today, Huichon hosts the main University of Telecommunications of North Korea.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Huichon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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