Seongju County

Seongju County (Seongju-gun) is a county in North Gyeongsang Province, with about 51,000 residents. It is a largely agricultural area immediately west of the metropolitan city of Daegu. The capital of the county is the town of Seongju.

Seongju County is famous for its production of oriental melons. Farms in the county comprise about 70% of total oriental melon production in the country.

Geography
Seongju-gun is in the southwest of Gyeongbuk, and the topography is generally circular, bordering Dalseong-gun and Chilgok-gun of Daegu to the east, Gimcheon-si and Geochang-gun of Gyeongnam to the west, Goryeong-gun and Hapcheon-gun and Geochang-gun of Gyeongnam to the south, and Gimcheon and Chilgok-gun to the north. The northwestern part is divided into the plains formed by the Nakdong River and its tributary rivers, and the sandy loam along the Nakdong River and Daegacheon coast are widely distributed.

See

 * Gayasan Wildflower Botanical Garden
 * Geumsu Cultural Art Village
 * Placenta Chamber of King Sejong's Princes
 * Seongju Gun Memory Museum
 * Hangae Village
 * Hoeyeon Confucian School