Anju
Anju is a city in South Pyongan Province, North Korea. Its population was 240,117 in 2008. The Ch'ongch'on River passes through Anju.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 240,000 residents
- Description: City in North Korea
- Also known as: “Aanshu”, “An-dschu”, “Anju-ŭp”, “Anju, South Pyongan”, “Anshū”, “Ansyū”, and “Ansyū Yū”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Paeksang Pavilion.
Paeksang Pavilion
Building
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
The Paeksang Pavilion is an historic structure located at the site of the Anju Fortress in Anju City, South Phyongan Province, North Korea. It is a National Treasure of North Korea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sinanju.
Sinanju
Town
Sinanju is a region in Anju city, South Pyongan Province, North Korea. The name literally means "Comfortable New Village." When Anju County was raised to the status of a city in August 1987, Sinanju Workers' District was divided into Sinwon-dong, Wonhung-dong, Yokchon-dong.
Anju
- Categories: city of North Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: South P’yŏngan Province, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.6174° or 39° 37′ 3″ northLongitude
125.6611° or 125° 39′ 40″ eastPopulation
240,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)Open location code
8QF7JM86+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 343234697OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1879613Wikidata ID
Q196236
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Waray—“Anju” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Anju”
- Arabic: “أنجو (كوريا الشمالية)”
- Arabic: “أنجو”
- Bengali: “আনজু”
- Catalan: “Anju”
- Cebuano: “Anju”
- Chinese: “Anju Chhī”
- Chinese: “安州市”
- Chinese: “安州郡”
- Chinese: “雲谷地區”
- Czech: “Andžu”
- Danish: “Anju”
- Dutch: “Anju”
- Esperanto: “Anĝu”
- Esperanto: “Anju”
- Finnish: “Anju”
- French: “Anju”
- German: “Andschu”
- German: “Anju (Nordkorea)”
- German: “Anju-si”
- German: “Anju”
- Greek: “Άντζου”
- Gujarati: “અંજુ”
- Hindi: “अंजू”
- Hungarian: “Andzsu”
- Indonesian: “Anju, Pyongan Selatan”
- Indonesian: “Anju”
- Irish: “Anju”
- Italian: “Anju”
- Japanese: “安州市”
- Kannada: “ಅಂಜು”
- Korean: “안주”
- Korean: “안주군”
- Korean: “안주시”
- Latvian: “Andžu”
- Lithuanian: “Andžu”
- Low German: “Anju”
- Malay: “Anju”
- Marathi: “अंजू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Anju Chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Anju”
- Norwegian: “Anju”
- Persian: “آنجو، پیونگان جنوبی”
- Polish: “Andzu”
- Polish: “Anju”
- Romanian: “Anju, Pyongan de Sud”
- Russian: “Анджу”
- Scots: “Anju, Sooth Pyongan”
- Scots: “Anju”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Anju”
- Sinhala: “අන්ජු”
- Spanish: “Anju si”
- Spanish: “Anju-si”
- Spanish: “Anju”
- Swedish: “Anju”
- Tagalog: “Anju, Hilagang Korea”
- Tamil: “அஞ்சு”
- Tatar: “Анҗу”
- Telugu: “అంజూ”
- Thai: “อันจู”
- Turkish: “Anju”
- Ukrainian: “Анджу”
- Urdu: “انجو، جنوبی پیونگان”
- Venetian: “Anju”
- Vietnamese: “Anju”
- Waray (Philippines): “Anju”
- “안주”
- “안주시”
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