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{{Infobox settlement
| name                            = Yeongam
| native_name                     = {{nobold|영암군}}
| native_name_lang                = ko
| settlement_type                 = [[List of counties in South Korea|County]]
| translit_lang1                  = Korean
| translit_lang1_type1            = Hangul
| translit_lang1_info1            = 영암군
| translit_lang1_type2            = Hanja
| translit_lang1_info2            = {{linktext|靈|巖|郡}}
| translit_lang1_type3            = {{nowrap|Revised Romanization}}
| translit_lang1_info3            = Yeongam-gun
| translit_lang1_type4            = {{nowrap|McCune-Reischauer}}
| translit_lang1_info4            = Yŏng'am-gun
| image_skyline                   = File:Yeongam Symbolic herdboy Statue.jpg
| imagesize                       = 
| image_caption                   = Yeongam Symbolic herdboy Statue
| image_map                       = South Jeolla-Yeongam.svg
| mapsize                         = 
| map_caption                     = Location in South Korea
| subdivision_type                = Country
| subdivision_name                = {{flag|South Korea}}
| subdivision_type1               = [[Regions of Korea|Region]]
| subdivision_name1               = [[Honam]]
| population_blank1_title         = Dialect
| population_blank1               = [[Jeolla dialect|Jeolla]]
| area_total_km2                  = 544.48
| population_as_of                = September 2024<ref>{{cite web |url=https://jumin.mois.go.kr/|title=Population statistics |date=2024|website=Korea Ministry of the Interior and Safety}}</ref>
| population_total                = 51,573
| population_density_km2          = 104.77
| parts_type                      = [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|Administrative divisions]]
| parts                           = 2 ''eups'', 9 ''myeons''
| image_blank_emblem              = Yeongam logo.png
| blank_emblem_type               = Emblem of Yeongam
| image_flag                      = Flag of Yeongam.svg
}}

'''Yeongam''' ({{IPA|ko|jʌŋam|}}) is a city and [[Administrative divisions of South Korea|county]] in [[South Jeolla]] Province, [[South Korea]]. Bordered with [[Mokpo]] and [[Naju]] to the north, [[Jangheung]] County to the east, and [[Haenam]] and [[Gangjin]] to the south, Yeongam County comprises two ''[[Administrative divisions of South Korea|eup]]s'' and nine ''[[Administrative divisions of South Korea|myeon]]s'', populated with about 57,000 people, and its county hall is seated in [[Yeongam-eup]].

The [[Korean Grand Prix]] was held along the harbor side, at the [[Korea International Circuit]] from 2010 to 2013. The track has been designed by the famous race track designer [[Hermann Tilke]]. The circuit is part permanent, part temporary. Construction began in 2007, and was completed in September/October 2010. The circuit had a contract to host the Grand Prix until 2016.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.motoring.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5174603&fSectionId=&fSetId=381|title=IOL Motoring}}</ref> After that, a 5-year option would have to be picked up to keep the race until at least 2021. However the race was cancelled after 2013.

==History==
Many Bronze Age relics, including cut stone tools, were excavated in the current Yeongam area, and it appears that people have lived in groups since the Bronze Age. This area was a village named Wolnagun, which was part of the [[Baekje]]. It was renamed Yeongam-gun in 758.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Yeongam-gun - History |url=https://www.yeongam.go.kr/home/eng/introduction/introduction_02/yeongam.go |website=Yeongam-gun}}</ref>

==Industry==
[[Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries]] (HSHI), world's 5th largest ship builder and the largest company in [[South Jeolla]] Province, is located in Samho Eup. Not only the company itself but also numerous cooperative firms of HSHI are headquartered in Daebul Industrial District in Samho Eup.

==Transport==
[[Mokpo Air Base]] (formerly Mokpo Airport) is in Yeongam County.<ref name=Youngamloc>{{cite web|url=https://mokpo.airport.co.kr/eng/index.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041209103556/https://mokpo.airport.co.kr/eng/index.jsp|title=Home (English)|publisher=Mokpo Airport|archive-date=2004-12-09|access-date=2024-12-30|quote=1374-20, Yongdang-ri, Samho-myeon, Youngam guon, Jeollanamdo}}</ref>

==Twin towns – sister cities==
Yeongam is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:

* {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Yeongdeungpo-gu]], [[Seoul]], [[South Korea]]
* {{flagicon|KOR}} [[Sancheong]], [[South Korea]]
* {{flagicon|PRC}} [[Huzhou]], [[PRC|China]]
* {{flagicon|JPN}} [[Hirakata, Osaka|Hirakata]], [[Japan]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://eng.yeongam.go.kr/home/eng/ Official website of the County Government]

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[[Category:Counties of South Jeolla Province]]

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