Hyesan
Hyesan is a city in the northern part of Ryanggang province of North Korea. It is a hub of river transportation as well as a product distribution centre.
- Type: City with 193,000 residents
- Description: city in North Korea
- Also known as: “Hesanjin”, “Hesantschin”, “Hiesonan”, “Hjėsanas”, “Hyesan City”, “Hyesan-shi”, “Hyesan-si”, “Hyesanjin”, “Keisanchin”, “Keizan”, “Keizanchin”, “Keizantin”, “Хиесан”, “혜산군”, “혜산진”, and “ヘーサン”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hyesan-Ch’ongnyŏn and Wiyon Chongnyon.
Hyesan
- Categories: city of North Korea, border city, big city, and locality
- Location: Ryanggang Province, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
41.4029° or 41° 24′ 11″ north
Longitude
128.1778° or 128° 10′ 40″ east
Population
193,000
Elevation
709 metres (2,326 feet)
Open location code
8QHCC53H+54
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hyesan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Hyesan”
- Amharic: “ሂሳን”
- Arabic: “هيسان”
- Arabic: “هييسان”
- Armenian: “Հեսան”
- Azerbaijani: “Hyesan”
- Bengali: “হায়সান”
- Bengali: “হিসান”
- Bulgarian: “Хесан”
- Catalan: “Hyesan”
- Chinese: “惠山市”
- Czech: “Hjesan”
- Danish: “Hyesan”
- Dutch: “Hyesan”
- Esperanto: “Hesano”
- Esperanto: “Hyesan”
- Estonian: “Hyesan”
- Finnish: “Hyesan”
- French: “Hyesan”
- German: “Hyesan”
- Greek: “Χιέσαν”
- Gujarati: “હ્યેસન”
- Hausa: “Hyesan”
- Hebrew: “הייסאן”
- Hindi: “हैएसान”
- Hindi: “ह्येसान”
- Hungarian: “Hjeszan”
- Indonesian: “Hyesan”
- Irish: “Hyesan”
- Italian: “Hyesan”
- Japanese: “へさん”
- Japanese: “恵山市”
- Javanese: “Hyesan”
- Kannada: “ಹೈಸನ್”
- Kazakh: “Хёсан”
- Kirghiz: “Хёсан”
- Korean: “혜산”
- Korean: “혜산시”
- Korean: “惠山”
- Korean: “惠山市”
- Latvian: “Hesana”
- Lithuanian: “Hesanas”
- Low German: “Hyesan”
- Macedonian: “Хесан”
- Malay: “Hyesan”
- Marathi: “हायसन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hyesan Chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hyesan”
- Norwegian: “Hyesan”
- Oromo: “Hyesan”
- Panjabi: “ਹਿਸਾਨ”
- Persian: “هایسان”
- Persian: “هیسان”
- Persian: “هیهسان”
- Polish: “Hyesan”
- Portuguese: “Hyesan”
- Pushto: “هایسان”
- Romanian: “Hyesan”
- Russian: “Хесан”
- Russian: “Хёсан”
- Serbian: “Хесан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hyesan”
- Sinhala: “හයිසන්”
- Slovenian: “Hjesan”
- Somali: “Hyesan”
- Spanish: “Hyesan”
- Swahili: “Hyesan”
- Swedish: “Hyesan”
- Tajik: “Хёсан”
- Tamil: “ஹியேசான்”
- Tatar: “Хёсан”
- Tatar: “Һесан”
- Telugu: “హ్యేసన్”
- Thai: “ฮเยซัน”
- Thai: “ไฮซาน”
- Turkish: “Hyesan”
- Ukrainian: “Хесан”
- Ukrainian: “Хєсан”
- Urdu: “ہائیسان”
- Urdu: “ہیئسان”
- Uzbek: “Hyesan”
- Venetian: “Hyesan”
- Vietnamese: “Hyesan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hyesan”
- Yue Chinese: “惠山”
- “혜산”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Topseong-dong and Hyesan-dong.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Ryanggang Province Library and Hyesan City People’s Committee.
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