Tanchon
Tanch'ŏn is a port city in northeastern South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea. It has a population of approximately 360,000. Tanch'ŏn borders the Sea of Japan , into which the Namdae River flows.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 346,000 residents
- Description: city in North Korea
- Also known as: “Tanch’ŏn-ŭp”, “Tanchon City”, “Tanchon-si”, “Tangch’ŏn”, “Tansen”, and “Tonch’on”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tanch’ŏn Ch’ŏngnyŏn.
Tanch’ŏn Ch’ŏngnyŏn
Railway station
Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in North Korea. It is located on the P'yŏngra Line of the Korean State Railway.
Tanchon
- Categories: city of North Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: South Hamgyong, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.45905° or 40° 27′ 33″ northLongitude
128.90387° or 128° 54′ 14″ eastPopulation
346,000Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
8QGCFW53+JGOpenStreetMap ID
node 991650348OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2040062Wikidata ID
Q513537
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tanchon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تانتشون”
- Basque: “Tanchon”
- Belarusian: “Танчхон”
- Bengali: “তাঞ্চন”
- Catalan: “Dancheon”
- Cebuano: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Chinese: “Tanch’ŏn Chhī”
- Chinese: “端川”
- Chinese: “端川市”
- Czech: “Tančchon”
- Danish: “Tanchon”
- Dutch: “Tanchon”
- Esperanto: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Esperanto: “Tanĉhon”
- Finnish: “Dancheon”
- Finnish: “Tanch’on”
- Finnish: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Finnish: “Tanchon”
- French: “Tanch’ŏn”
- French: “Tanchon”
- German: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Greek: “Ντάντσον”
- Gujarati: “ટંચન”
- Hebrew: “טאנצ’ון”
- Hindi: “तानचोन”
- Hungarian: “Tancshon”
- Indonesian: “Tanchon”
- Irish: “Tanchon”
- Italian: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Japanese: “端川”
- Japanese: “端川市”
- Kalaallisut: “Tanchon”
- Kannada: “ಟ್ಯಾಂಚನ್”
- Korean: “단천”
- Korean: “단천군”
- Korean: “단천시”
- Latvian: “Tančhona”
- Lithuanian: “Tančonas”
- Low German: “Tanchon”
- Malay: “Tanchon”
- Maori: “Tanchon”
- Marathi: “तंचन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tanch’ŏn Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Таньчонь”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanchon”
- Norwegian: “Tanchon”
- Persian: “تانچون”
- Polish: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Polish: “Tanczhon”
- Portuguese: “Tanch’on”
- Russian: “Танчхон”
- Scots: “Tanchon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Sinhala: “ටැන්චන්”
- Spanish: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Spanish: “Tanchon”
- Swahili: “Tanchon”
- Swedish: “Tanchon”
- Tagalog: “Tanchon”
- Tamil: “தன்சோன்”
- Tatar: “Танчон”
- Telugu: “తాన్చోన్”
- Thai: “ทังคานนอค”
- Thai: “ทันช็อน”
- Turkish: “Tanchon”
- Ukrainian: “Танчхон”
- Urdu: “تانچون”
- Venetian: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Tanch’on”
- Vietnamese: “Tanch’ŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Tanchon”
- Western Panjabi: “ٹانچن”
- Yue Chinese: “端川”
- “단천”
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