Kijong-dong
Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri, Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: village in P’yŏnghwa-ri, North Korea
- Also known as: “Fredensdörp”, “Friedensdorf”, “Gijeongdong”, “Kidžŏng”, “Kidžŏngdong”, “Kijŏng-dong”, “Pchjŏnghwačchon”, “Sŏndžŏnmaŭl”, “Деревня мира”, “Деревня Пропаганды”, “Кйонг-донг”, “선전 마을”, “선전마을”, and “氣靜洞”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Tower of Immortality (Kijŏng-dong) and Bridge of No Return.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Daeseong-dong and Panmunjeom.
Daeseong-dong
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kijong-dong
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kaesong, Hwanghae, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.94464° or 37° 56′ 41″ north
Longitude
126.65585° or 126° 39′ 21″ east
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
8Q98WMV4+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kijong-dong” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيجونغ-دونغ”
- Asturian: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Belarusian: “Кіджандон”
- Catalan: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Chinese: “机井洞”
- Chinese: “機 井洞”
- Chinese: “機井洞”
- Czech: “Kidžong”
- Danish: “Gijeong-dong”
- Dutch: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Esperanto: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Finnish: “Gijeong-dong”
- French: “Kijong-dong”
- Georgian: “კიჯონ-დონგი (პროპაგანდისტული სოფელი)”
- Georgian: “კიჯონ-დონგი”
- German: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Greek: “Γκίτζονγκ-ντονγκ”
- Hungarian: “Kidzsong-tong”
- Hungarian: “Kidzsongdong”
- Indonesian: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Italian: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Japanese: “機井洞”
- Kirghiz: “Кижондон”
- Korean: “Gijeong-dong”
- Korean: “기정동”
- Lombard: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Low German: “Kijong”
- Malay: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Norwegian: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Persian: “کیجونگ-دونگ”
- Polish: “Kijondong”
- Polish: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Portuguese: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Russian: “Киджондон”
- Slovenian: “Kidžong-dong”
- Spanish: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Swedish: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Thai: “คีจ็องดง”
- Thai: “หมู่บ้านสันติภาพ”
- Turkish: “Kijŏng-dong”
- Ukrainian: “Кіджондон”
- Vietnamese: “Kijŏng-dong”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Panmunjom-ri and Pyeonghwa-ri.
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