About Jincheon
Current status
Area : 407.25㎢ (0.4% of the gross area, 5.5% of do)
Population(Including foreigners) : (As of August 2019)
| Classification | No. of households |
Population | Variation in population (contrast to July) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | Men | Women | |||
| Total | 36,731 | 86,798 | 46,415 | 40,383 | 153 |
| Jincheon-eup | 13,327 | 31,697 | 16,290 | 15,407 | 33 |
| Deoksan-eup | 10,205 | 25,704 | 13,860 | 11,844 | 256 |
| Chopyeong-myeon | 1,655 | 3,466 | 1,795 | 1,671 | -20 |
| Munbeak-myeon | 1,903 | 4,054 | 2,295 | 1,759 | -32 |
| Baekgok-myeon | 1,177 | 2,124 | 1,070 | 1,054 | -1 |
| Iwol-myeon | 3,255 | 7,820 | 4,577 | 3,243 | -9 |
| Gwanghyewon-myeon | 5,209 | 11,933 | 6,528 | 5,405 | -74 |
- Administrative district : 2eup, 5 myeons, 83 legal ris 304adminstrative ris 941 bans (As of July 1, 2019)
- Administrative organizations : 2 offices, 14 departments, 1 assembly, 2 institutes directly responsible to it, 3 places of business 2 eup, 5 myeons (As of January 1, 2020)
- Civil servants : 742 persons (office 389, assembly 11, institute 137, place of business 57, Eup and myeon 148) (As of January 1, 2020)
- Cars(48,303 units) : 36,744 passenger cars / 1,819 vans / 9,563 trucks / 177 special cars (As of End of January, 2020)
- Main specialties : Rice, aquarium fishes, roses, watermelons, vegetable grown in facilities, and apples
- Businesses : 1342 businesses(7 industrial complexes, 8 agricultural industrial complexes) (As of July 2019)
Cultural assets (As of July 1, 2019)
| Total | State-designated | Do-designated | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Treasure | Historical site | Natural monument | Important intangible cultural assets | Registered cultural assets | Tangible | Intangible | Monument | Folk cultural assets | Cultural asset data | |
| 44 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 5 |
Jincheon Location
Jincheon is located 127 degrees east longitude and 36 degrees north latitude. Located in the central part of Chungcheongbuk-do, Jincheon is a landlocked city with Jungbu Express highway passing through the middle, and within a 40km radius are the cities of Cheongju, Eumseong, Geosan and Cheonan . In keeping with its original name of “SaengGeo Jincheon”, Jincheon is a heavily mountainous area with the Charyeong mountain range running from the north to south. Mihocheon stream, the upper region of the Gumgang River, begins at Gwanghyewon-myeon and Baekgok-myeon and runs through the extensive plains in the south, which forms a fertile granary in the southern part of Jincheon.
