Cheongwon County () was a

county A county () is a geographic region of a country used for administrative or other purposesL. Brookes (ed.) '' Chambers Dictionary''. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2005. in some nations. The term is derived from the Old French denoti ...

in North Chungcheong Province,

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. It was dissolved on July 1, 2014 and consolidated to

Cheongju Cheongju (; ) is the capital and largest list of cities in South Korea, city of North Chungcheong Province in South Korea. The 'Cheong' in the name of Chungcheong Province is the Cheong of Cheongju. History Cheongju has been an important prov ...

Government

The Korea Food and Drug Administration (later Ministry of Food and Drug Safety), and Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were/are headquartered in the Osong Health Technology Administration Complex, which was once in Cheongwon County.
Korean address
"(363-951) 충북 청원군 오송읍 오송생명2로 187 오송보건의료행정타운내 질병관리본부"

Sister cities

Cheongwon was twinned with: *

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Hebei Hebei is a Provinces of China, province in North China. It is China's List of Chinese administrative divisions by population, sixth-most populous province, with a population of over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. It bor ...

, China * Kikuchi,

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, Japan

References

╋ Cheongju Former subdivisions of South Korea States and territories disestablished in 2014 {{NorthChungcheong-geo-stub