South Chungcheong Province, or
Chungcheongnam-do (abbreviated
Chungnam), is a
province in the west of
South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the south-western half of the former
Chungcheong Province and remained a province of
Korea until the country's
division in 1945, thereafter becoming part of South Korea. In 2012, the provincial capital moved from
Daejeon to
Hongseong.