Yongsin-dong
Yongsin-dong is a dong of Dongdaemun District, Seoul, South Korea. It consists of the two legal dong Sinseol-dong and Yongdu-dong.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Quarter with 31,700 residents
- Description: neighborhood in South Korea
- Also known as: “Ryŭtŏ-ri”, “Ryŭtŏchŏ”, “Songdong”, “Yongdu-dong”, and “Yongdujŏng”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jegi-dong and Gyeongdong Market.
Jegi-dong
Metro station
Photo: LERK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jegi-dong Station is a station on Line 1 on the Seoul Subway network. This station is very close to the site of the former Seongdong Station, the original western terminus of the Gyeongchun Line from 1939 to 1971.
Gyeongdong Market
Marketplace
Photo: Gaël Chardon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Gyeongdong Market, sometimes Kyungdong Market, located in Dongdaemun District, Seoul, is one of the largest herbal medicine and ginseng markets of South Korea.
Yongdu
Metro station
Photo: LERK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Yongdu Station is a station on the Seongsu Branch of the Seoul Subway Line 2. It is located in Yongdu-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul. The name of the station means "dragon head".
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sungin-dong and Hwanghak-dong.
Yongsin-dong
- Categories: dong of South Korea and locality
- Location: Jegi-dong, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, Gyeonggi, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.57616° or 37° 34′ 34″ northLongitude
127.03476° or 127° 2′ 5″ eastPopulation
31,700Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
8Q99H2GM+FWOpenStreetMap ID
node 415154016OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
1832542Wikidata ID
Q2647436
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Yongsin-dong” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Yongsin-dong”
- Chinese: “龍新洞”
- Chinese: “龍頭洞”
- Greek: “Γιόνγκντου-ντονγκ”
- Japanese: “ヨンシンドン”
- Japanese: “ヨンシン洞”
- Japanese: “竜新洞”
- Japanese: “龍新洞”
- Japanese: “龍頭洞”
- Korean: “Yongdu-dong”
- Korean: “용두동”
- Korean: “용신동”
- Korean: “龍新洞”
- Malay: “Yongdu-dong, Seoul”
- Malay: “Yongdu-dong”
- Persian: “یونگسین-دونگ”
- Swedish: “Yongsin-dong”
- Urdu: “یونگسن-ڈونگ”
- Vietnamese: “Yongsin-dong”
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