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Gangwon

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ890885 ↗
Source-derived summary

Gangwon, Kangwŏn, or Kangwon (Korean: 강원) may refer to:

Kangwon Province (pre-1910), the Goryeo, Joseon Dynasty and the Japanese Korean province

Gangwon Province, South Korea, a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon. Before the division of Korea in 1945, Gangwon and its North Korean neighbour Kangwŏn formed a single province

Kangwon Province, North Korea, a province of North Korea, with its capital at Wŏnsan. Before the division of Korea in 1945, Kangwŏn Province and its South Korean neighbour Gangwon Province (also spelled Kangwon Province) formed a single province that excluded Wŏnsan

Gangwon FC, a South Korean football club.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Gangwon” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gangwon, Wikimedia and disambiguation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gangwon, Wikimedia and disambiguation providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Gangwon”, the useful work is to connect “wikimedia disambiguation page” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q890885. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1910 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gangwon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.