Chongju
Chŏngju is a si, or city, in southern North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. Prior to 1994, it was designated as a kun or county. The terrain is mostly level, but mountainous in the north.- Type: City with 190,000 residents
- Description: city in North Pyongan Province, North Korea
- Also known as: “Chongju-si”, “Chŏngju-si”, “Chŏngju-ŭp”, “Jeongju”, “Jeongju-eup”, “Jeongju-gun”, “Jeongju-si”, “Jongju”, “Jongju-si”, and “Tei Shū”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chongju Chongnyon station and Tower of Immortality (Jongju Station).
Chongju Chongnyon station
Railway station
Hadan station
Railway station
Hadan station is a railway station in Chŏngju, North P'yŏngan Province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngŭi Line of the Korean State Railway.
Chongju
- Categories: city of North Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: North Pyongan Province, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.6929° or 39° 41′ 35″ north
Longitude
125.2101° or 125° 12′ 37″ east
Population
190,000
Elevation
63 metres (207 feet)
Open location code
8QF7M6V6+53
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chongju” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشنغتشو”
- Bengali: “কনজু”
- Catalan: “Jeongju”
- Cebuano: “Chŏngju-gun”
- Chinese: “Chŏngju Chhī”
- Chinese: “定州”
- Chinese: “定州市”
- Chinese: “定州邑”
- Chinese: “定州郡”
- Czech: “Čongdžu”
- Czech: “Čŏngdžu”
- Danish: “Chongju”
- Dutch: “Chongju”
- Esperanto: “Ĉongĝu”
- Finnish: “Chongju”
- Finnish: “Jeongju”
- French: “Chongju”
- French: “Jongju”
- German: “Chongju”
- German: “Chŏngju”
- Greek: “Τζόνγκτζου”
- Gujarati: “ચૉંગજુ”
- Hindi: “चोंग्जू”
- Hungarian: “Csongdzsu”
- Iban: “Chongju”
- Indonesian: “Chongju”
- Irish: “Chongju”
- Italian: “Chongju”
- Italian: “Chŏngju”
- Japanese: “定州市”
- Japanese: “定州郡”
- Kannada: “ಚೊಂಗ್ಜು”
- Korean: “정주”
- Korean: “정주군”
- Korean: “정주시”
- Korean: “정주읍”
- Latvian: “Čondžu”
- Lithuanian: “Čongdžu”
- Malay: “Chongju”
- Marathi: “चोंगजू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Chŏngju Chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chongju”
- Norwegian: “Chongju”
- Persian: “چونگجو”
- Persian: “چونگجو”
- Polish: “Chŏngju”
- Portuguese: “Chongju”
- Russian: “Чонджу”
- Scots: “Chongju”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Chŏngju”
- Sinhala: “චොන්ග්ජු”
- Spanish: “Chongju”
- Swedish: “Chŏngju-gun”
- Swedish: “Chŏngju”
- Tamil: “சோங்ஜூ”
- Tatar: “Чоңҗу”
- Telugu: “చోంగ్జు”
- Thai: “ช็องจู”
- Turkish: “Chongju”
- Turkish: “Jongju”
- Ukrainian: “Чонгджу”
- Urdu: “چونگجؤ”
- Vietnamese: “Chongju, Bắc Triều Tiên”
- Vietnamese: “Chongju, Cộng hòa Dân chủ Nhân dân Triều Tiên”
- Vietnamese: “Chongju”
- Vietnamese: “Chŏngju”
- Vietnamese: “Định Châu”
- Yue Chinese: “定州 (北韓)”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jongju Community Center and Jongju Youth Gymnasium.
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