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Pyeongchang County
Korean Name
Revised Romanization Pyeongchang-gun
McCune-Reischauer P'yŏngch'ang-gun
Hangul 평창군
Hanja 平昌郡
Statistics
Area 1,463.45 km²
Population 48,746(2000)
Pop. density: 21 people/km²
Capital Pyeongchang-eup
Administrative divisions 1 Eup, 7 Myeons
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Pyeongchang County (Pyeongchang-gun) is a county in Gangwon Province, South Korea. Pyeongchang bid to be the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics, but lost out in the final ballot to Vancouver, Canada.

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