Heungdeok-gu is a non-autonomous

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in the City of

Cheongju Cheongju () is the capital and largest List of cities in South Korea, city of North Chungcheong Province in South Korea. History Cheongju has been an important provincial town since ancient times. In the Cheongju Mountains, specifically in the ...

North Chungcheong Province North Chungcheong Province ( ko, 충청북도, ''Chungcheongbuk-do''), also known as Chungbuk, is a province of South Korea. North Chungcheong has a population of 1,578,934 (2014) and has a geographic area of located in the Hoseo region in the s ...

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. Heungdeok-gu was re-established from a part of Heungdeok-gu and a part of

Cheongwon-gun Cheongwon County (''Cheongwon-gun'') was a county in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. It was dissolved on July 1, 2014 and consolidated to Cheongju. Cheongwon was twinned with: * Cangzhou, Hebei, China * Kikuchi, Kumamoto is ...

in July 2014. The newly created Seowon-gu annexed the part of Heungdeok-gu.인구 84만명 통합 청주시 출범

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, June 30, 2014.

Administrative divisions

Heungdeok-gu is divided into one town (''eup''), 2 townships (''myeon''), and 8 neighbourhoods (''dong'').

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* Districts of Cheongju 1995 establishments in South Korea States and territories established in 1995 {{SouthKorea-geo-stub