Cheongdo
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| Cheongdo |  |
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| Hangul: | 청도군 |
| Hanja: | 淸道郡 |
| Revised Romanization: | Cheongdo-gun |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Ch'ŏngdo-gun |
| Statistics | |
| Area: | 696.53 km² |
| Population: | 47,099 Dec. 2005 reg.[1] |
| Pop. density: | 72.8 people/km² |
| Administrative divisions: | 2 eup, 7 myeon |
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Cheongdo County (Cheongdo-gun) is a county in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is connected to the national transportation grid by the Gyeongbu Line railroad and the Daegu-Busan Expressway. The seat of government is located in the center of the county, in Hwayang-eup.
In the Samhan period, Cheongdo may have been the site of the small polity of Ieso-guk. It was later absorbed into Silla, and gained its current name of "Cheongdo" in 940. The nine subdivisions of the town were established in 1919. The county government moved to its current location in 1961. In 1966, the New Village Movement began in Sindo 1-ri, Cheongdo-eup.
Every year Cheongdo is host to an international festival of bullfighting.
[edit] Administrative divisions
Cheongdo is divided into two eup and seven myeon, as below. These in turn are divided into 212 ri, and 668 natural villages (jayeon burak).
- Hwayang-eup
- Cheongdo-eup
- Gakbuk-myeon
- Punggak-myeon
- Iseo-myeon
- Gangnam-myeon
- Maejeon-myeon
- Geumcheon-myeon
- Unmun-myeon
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| Administrative divisions of North Gyeongsang province, South Korea | |
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| Capital: | Daegu |
| Cities: | Andong | Gimcheon | Gumi | Gyeongju | Gyeongsan | Mungyeong | Pohang | Sangju | Yeongcheon | Yeongju |
| Counties: | Bonghwa | Cheongdo | Cheongsong | Chilgok | Goryeong | Gunwi | Seongju | Uiseong | Uljin | Ulleung | Yecheon | Yeongdeok | Yeongyang |
