East Asia
North Korea
Chagang

Kanggye

Kanggye is the provincial capital of Chagang, and has a population of 251,971. Because of its strategic importance, derived from its topography, it has been of military interest from the time of the Joseon Dynasty.
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  • Type: City with 252,000 residents
  • Description: city of North Korea
  • Also known as: “Kakai”, “Kang-ge”, “Kanggye City”, “Kanggye-si”, and “Kōkai”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kanggye station.

Railway station
is a railway station in Kanggye municipal city, , , on the Manp'o Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the narrow-gauge Kanggye Line to Rangrim.

Kanggye

Latitude
40.9659° or 40° 57′ 57″ north
Longitude
126.5975° or 126° 35′ 51″ east
Population
252,000
Elevation
288 metres (945 feet)
Open location code
8QG8XH8X+92
Open­Street­Map ID
node 264064059
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
2043572
Wiki­data ID
Q489825
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kanggye” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ganggye”
  • Achinese: “Kanggye”
  • Arabic: “كانغيي”
  • Armenian: “Կանգե”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanqe”
  • Basque: “Kanggye”
  • Bengali: “ক্যানগা”
  • Bulgarian: “Канге”
  • Bulgarian: “Кангие”
  • Bulgarian: “Кангье”
  • Catalan: “Kanggye”
  • Cebuano: “Kanggye-si (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Kanggye-si”
  • Chinese: “Kanggye Chhī”
  • Chinese: “江界”
  • Chinese: “江界市”
  • Chinese: “江界郡”
  • Czech: “Kanggje-si”
  • Czech: “Kanggje”
  • Danish: “Kanggye”
  • Dutch: “Kanggye”
  • Esperanto: “Kangje”
  • Estonian: “Kanggye”
  • Finnish: “Ganggye”
  • Finnish: “Kanggye”
  • French: “Kanggye”
  • German: “Kanggje”
  • German: “Kanggye-si”
  • German: “Kanggye”
  • Greek: “Γκάνγκιε”
  • Gujarati: “કાંગયે”
  • Hindi: “कांगगये”
  • Hungarian: “Kanggje”
  • Indonesian: “Kanggye”
  • Irish: “Kanggye”
  • Italian: “Kanggye”
  • Japanese: “江界”
  • Japanese: “江界市”
  • Japanese: “江界郡”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಂಗ್ಗಿ”
  • Korean: “강계”
  • Korean: “강계시”
  • Korean: “강계직할시”
  • Korean: “강계특별시”
  • Latvian: “Kangje”
  • Lithuanian: “Kangė”
  • Lithuanian: “Kangijė”
  • Lithuanian: “Kangjė”
  • Low German: “Kanggye”
  • Malay: “Kanggye”
  • Marathi: “कँग्गीइ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kanggye Chhī”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanggye”
  • Norwegian: “Kanggye”
  • Persian: “کانگیه”
  • Persian: “گانگ‌گیه”
  • Polish: “Kanggie”
  • Polish: “Kanggje”
  • Polish: “Kanggye”
  • Portuguese: “Kanggye”
  • Romanian: “Kanggye”
  • Russian: “Канге”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kanggye”
  • Sinhala: “කැන්ග්යේ”
  • Spanish: “Kanggye”
  • Swedish: “Kanggye”
  • Tamil: “காங்க்கியே”
  • Tatar: “Каңъе”
  • Telugu: “కాంగ్యే”
  • Thai: “กังกาย”
  • Thai: “คังกเย”
  • Turkish: “Kanggye”
  • Ukrainian: “Канге”
  • Urdu: “کانگگیے”
  • Uzbek: “Kanggye”
  • Venetian: “Kanggye”
  • Vietnamese: “Giang Giới”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanggye”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanggye”
  • Wu Chinese: “江界市”
  • Yue Chinese: “江界”

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