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North Jeolla is a province in the southwest of South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Jeolla province, remained a province of Korea until the country's divisionOn August 10 1945 there was a meeting of commissions of the ministry of the exterior, the ministry of war and the ministry of marines. As part of this meeting, the two young officers Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel were given the task to come up with a pl in 1945Events January January 5 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland. January 7 British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge. January 12 World War II:, then became part of South Korea. The provincial capital is located at Jeonju, which was the capital of all of Jeolla before 1896.

1 Geography

The province is part of the Honam region, and is bounded on the west by the Yellow SeaThe Yellow Sea (in North and South Korea, it is also called the West Sea is the northern part of the East China Sea, which in turn is a part of the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Mainland China and the Korean peninsula. Its name comes from the sand, on the north by South ChungcheongSouth Chungcheong Province Korean Name Revised RomanizationChungcheongnam-do McCune-ReischauerCh'ungch'ongnam-do Hangul Hanja Short NameChungnam (Ch'ungnam;; ) Statistics Population(excluding Daejeon)1,840,410( 2000 census) Area (excluding Daejeon)8,352 k Province, on the south by South Jeolla, and on the east by North and South Gyeongsang Provinces. The Noryeong Mountains divide the province. The eastern half is a plateau, the western one a plain. Through the plain in the west flow four rivers: Somjin , Mankyong , Tongjin , and Geum.