Tanchon

Tanch'ŏn is a port city in northeastern province, . It has a population of approximately 360,000. Tanch'ŏn borders the , into which the Namdae River flows.
Wikipedia
  • City with 346,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 8 metres (26 feet)
  • Description: city in North Korea
  • Also known as
    “Tanch’ŏn-ŭp”
    “Tanchon City”
    “Tanchon-si”
    “Tangch’ŏn”
    “Tansen”
    “Tonch’on”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tanch’ŏn Ch’ŏngnyŏn.
Tanch'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in .

Tanchon

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Latitude
40.45905° or 40° 27′ 33″ north
Longitude
128.90387° or 128° 54′ 14″ east
Open location code
8QGCFW53+JG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 991650348
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2040062
Wiki­data ID
Q513537

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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: “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”

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