Ich'ŏn County is a ''kun'', or county, in northern Kangwŏn province,

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. The terrain is predominantly high and mountainous; the highest point is Myongidoksan, 1,585 meters above sea level. The county's borders run along the Masingryong and Ryongam ranges. The chief stream is the

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Administrative divisions

Ich'ŏn county is divided into 1 '' ŭp'' (town) and 22 '' ri'' (villages):

Economy

Agriculture

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is limited to the low-lying regions.

Sericulture Sericulture, or silk farming, is the cultivation of silkworms to produce silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms, the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori, domestic silkmoth is the most widely used and intensively studied silkwo ...

(silk farming) is also practised. Due to the abundant woods,

lumbering Logging is the process of cutting, processing, and moving trees to a location for transport. It may include skidding, on-site processing, and loading of trees or logs onto trucks

is also an important industry.

Mining

There are deposits of

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nickel Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure nickel is chemically reactive, but large pieces are slo ...

and

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in the county.

Transport

Ich'ŏn is served by roads, and by the Ch'ŏngnyŏn Ich'ŏn line of the

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References

External links

* {{coord missing, North Korea Counties of Kangwon Province (North Korea)