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Taebaek Mountains

Location of the Taebaek Mountains.

Korean name

Hangul	태백산맥
Hanja	太白山脈
Revised Romanization	Taebaek Sanmaek
McCune-Reischauer	T'aebaek Sanmaek

The Taebaek Mountains are a mountain range in both North and South Korea. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language Romanization system in South Korea. McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language Romanization systems along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which North Korea is the commonly used short form name for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) a State located in East Asia, South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː They form the main ridge of the Korean peninsula. Physical geography See also Geography of North Korea, Geography of South Korea Mountains cover 70 percent of the Korean Peninsula and arable plains are

The Taebaek mountains are located to the east of the peninsula and run along the Sea of Japan (East Sea). The Sea of Japan is a Marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea and Russia Hwangnyong Mountain in North Korea with 1268 metres forms the northern end of the range. Busan lies at the southern end of the mountain range. This makes the mountain range a total length of over 500 kilometres, averaging about 1000 metres in height.

Prominent peaks of the range include Mt. Kŭmgang (1,638 m), Mt. Seorak (1,708 m), and Mt. Odae (1,563 m). Seoraksan is the highest mountain in the Taebaek mountain range (태백산맥 in the Gangwon province in eastern South Korea. Odaesan (1563 m is a mountain in Gangwon South Korea, standing at the junction of the districts of Gangneung, Pyeongchang, and Hongcheon To the east, the mountain range falls steeply into the sea, but to the west, there are more gentle slopes. Many spurs stretch southwest. The most important rivers of South Korea Han River and Nakdong River both originate in the Taebaek Mountains. Han River is in South Korea is the confluence of the Namhan River (South Han River which originates in Mount Daedeok, and the Bukhan River The Nakdong River ( Rakdong in North Korean is the longest River in South Korea, and passes through major cities such as Daegu and

Economically the Taebaek mountains are important for the mining of iron, coal, tungsten, and limestone. Iron (ˈаɪɚn is a Chemical element with the symbol Fe (ferrum and Atomic number 26 Tungsten (ˈtʌŋstən also known as wolfram (/ˈwʊlfrəm/ is a Chemical element that has the symbol W and Atomic number 74 Limestone is a Sedimentary rock composed largely of the Mineral Calcite ( Calcium carbonate: CaCO3 Many of the slopes are extensively covered in forests.