- Yeongdong
Infobox Korean name
hangul=S: 영동 N: 령동
hanja=嶺東
rr=S: Yeongdong N: Ryeongdong
mr=S: Yŏngdong N: Ryŏngdong
"This article is about Yeongdong, a region in easternKorea . For the county of the same name inNorth Chungcheong Province,South Korea , seeYeongdong County ."Yeongdong (literally "east of the passes") is the name of the region coinciding with eastern
Gangwon Province inSouth Korea and eastern Kangwŏn Province inNorth Korea .Although
Yeongseo describes the western half of the two provinces andGwandong describes both halves together, "Yeongdong" is used much more frequently in South Korea than either of the other two names, and may be taken loosely to refer to the entire region.Two transportation corridors connecting
Seoul to Gangwon (Yeongdong Railway Line andYeongdong Expressway ), lends their names to this regionn.ee also
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Regions of Korea
*Yeongnam
*List of Korea-related topics
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