Geography

Located on the Chaeryŏng River, the county is bordered to the west by Anak and Sinch'ŏn, to the south by Sinwŏn

Sinwon

Sinwon is a county in South Hwanghae province, North Korea....

, and to the east by Ŭnp'a, Pongsan

Pongsan

Pongsan is a county in North Hwanghae province, North Korea.The name is spelled with a "B" according to the McCune–Reischauer form of romanization or spelled with a "P" according to the Revised Romanization of Korean.-Transport:...

 and Sariwŏn

Sariwon

Sariwŏn is the capital of North Hwanghae Province, North Korea. The city's population is estimated to be 310,100 people.-Healthcare:Sariwon has the only pediatric hospital in the entire region; it serves 16 districts and 500,000 children and teens annually....

 in North Hwanghae Province.

History

Chaeryŏng County was first founded by the kingdom of Koguryo, who called it Siksŏng . Koguryo lost the area during the unification of Korea by the Koryo

Goryeo

The Goryeo Dynasty or Koryŏ was a Korean dynasty established in 918 by Emperor Taejo. Korea gets its name from this kingdom which came to be pronounced Korea. It united the Later Three Kingdoms in 936 and ruled most of the Korean peninsula until it was removed by the Joseon dynasty in 1392...

 dynasty, who gave it its current name in 1217. In 1415 it was promoted to county level under the Yi

Joseon Dynasty

Joseon , was a Korean state founded by Taejo Yi Seong-gye that lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo at what is today the city of Kaesong. Early on, Korea was retitled and the capital was relocated to modern-day Seoul...

. Chaeryŏng was briefly merged into the newly-formed Hwanghae District in 1895 during an experimental redistricting, but was restored to its previous form in 1896. The county's current form was settled in the 1952 redistricting changes.

Transportation

The county is served by railway Line, which stops at Chaeryong and Kumsan Stations. There is also a highway which runs through Chaeryŏng Town.

Divisions

The county is divided into one town (ŭp), one worker's district (rodongjagu) and 24 villages (ri).

	Chosŏn'gŭl Hangul Hangul,Pronounced or ; Korean: 한글 Hangeul/Han'gŭl or 조선글 Chosŏn'gŭl/Joseongeul the Korean alphabet, is the native alphabet of the Korean language. It is a separate script from Hanja, the logographic Chinese characters which are also sometimes used to write Korean...	Hancha Hanja Hanja is the Korean name for the Chinese characters hanzi. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation...
Chaeryŏng Town	재령읍
Kŭmsan Worker's District	금산노동자구
Chaech'ŏn	재천리
Changguk-ri	장국리
Ch'ŏngch'ŏn-ri	청천리
Ch'ŏnma-ri	천마리
Kanggyo-ri	강교리
Kimjewŏn-ri	김제원리
Kosan-ri	고산리
Kulhae-ri	굴해리
Namji-ri	남지리
Pongch'ŏn-ri	봉천리
Pongo-ri	봉오리
Pudŏk-ri	부덕리
Pukji-ri	북지리
Pyŏksan-ri	벽산리
Naerim-ri	래림리
Ryonggyo-ri	룡교리
Samjigang-ri	삼지강리
Singot-ri	신곶리
Sinhwanp'o-ri	신환포리
Sŏkt'an-ri	석탄리
Sŏrim-ri	서림리
Sŏwŏn-ri	서원리
Tongsinhung-ri	동신흥리
Yanggye-ri	양계리