Hoeryong
Hoeryŏng is a city in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. It is located opposite Jilin Province, China, with the Tumen River in between. Sanhe, in Longjing City, is the closest Chinese town across the river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: RayCunningham, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 154,000 residents
- Description: city in North Pyongan province
- Also known as: “Hoenyŏng”, “Hoeryeong”, “Hoeryeong-si”, “Hoeryŏng”, “Hoeryŏng-ŭp”, “Kaeryŏng”, “Kainei”, “Kainei-yŭ”, and “Kwainei”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hoeryong Chongnyon station.
Hoeryong Chongnyon station
Railway station
Photo: xue siyang (df45086), CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hoeryŏng Ch'ŏngnyŏn station is a railway station in Hoeryŏng-si, North Hamgyŏng, North Korea, on the Hambuk Line of the Korean State Railway. It is also the starting point of the 10.6-km-long freight-only Hoeryŏng Colliery Line to Yusŏn-dong, Hoeryŏng-si.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sanhe.
Sanhe
Town
Sanhe is a town under the administration of Longjing City in southeastern Jilin, People's Republic of China, located along the Sino-Korean border west of North Korea; the nearest major settlement across the Tumen River is Hoeryong in North Hamgyong Province.
Hoeryong
- Categories: city of North Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: North Hamgyong, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.43428° or 42° 26′ 3″ northLongitude
129.75425° or 129° 45′ 15″ eastPopulation
154,000Elevation
237 metres (778 feet)Open location code
8QJFCQM3+PMOpenStreetMap ID
node 256632365OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
2044091Wikidata ID
Q48888
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hoeryong” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Hoeryeong”
- Achinese: “Hoeryong”
- Arabic: “هويريونغ”
- Armenian: “Հվերյոն”
- Azerbaijani: “Hveryon”
- Bengali: “হোরইয়ং”
- Catalan: “Hoeryong”
- Cebuano: “Hoeryŏng”
- Chinese: “Hoeryŏng Chhī”
- Chinese: “会宁市”
- Chinese: “会甯”
- Chinese: “會寧”
- Chinese: “會寧市”
- Czech: “Hörjong”
- Czech: “Hörjŏng”
- Danish: “Hoeryong”
- Dutch: “Hoeryong”
- Dutch: “Hoeryŏng”
- Esperanto: “Horjong”
- Estonian: “Hoeryong”
- Estonian: “Hoeryŏng”
- Finnish: “Hoeryeong”
- Finnish: “Hoeryong”
- Finnish: “Hoeryŏng”
- French: “Hoeryong”
- French: “Hoeryŏng”
- Galician: “Hoeryong”
- German: “Hoeryong”
- German: “Hoeryŏng”
- Greek: “Χοέριονγκ”
- Gujarati: “હોરીઓંગ”
- Hebrew: “הואריונג”
- Hindi: “होरयोंग”
- Hungarian: “Hörjong”
- Indonesian: “Hoeryong”
- Irish: “Hoeryong”
- Italian: “Hoeryong”
- Japanese: “かいねいし”
- Japanese: “ふぇりょん”
- Japanese: “ホエニョン”
- Japanese: “会寧市”
- Kannada: “ಹೂರಿಂಗ್”
- Korean: “회경시”
- Korean: “회령”
- Korean: “회령군”
- Korean: “회령시”
- Latvian: “Hverjona”
- Lithuanian: “Herjongas”
- Lithuanian: “Hoerjongas”
- Macedonian: “Херјонг”
- Malay: “Hoeryong”
- Marathi: “होरीओंग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hoeryŏng Chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hoeryong”
- Norwegian: “Hoeryong”
- Persian: “هوئریونگ”
- Persian: “هوریونگ”
- Polish: “Hoeryŏng”
- Polish: “Hweriong”
- Portuguese: “Hoeryong”
- Russian: “Хверён”
- Sinhala: “හොඑරියොන්ග්”
- Spanish: “Hoeryong”
- Spanish: “Hoeryŏng”
- Swedish: “Hoeryong”
- Tamil: “ஹோரியங்”
- Tatar: “Һөрйоң”
- Telugu: “హోర్యోంగ్”
- Thai: “ฮเวรย็อง”
- Turkish: “Hoeryong”
- Ukrainian: “Хверьон”
- Urdu: “ہوئریونگ”
- Venetian: “Hoeryong”
- Vietnamese: “Hoeryong”
- Vietnamese: “Hoeryŏng”
- Yue Chinese: “會寧”
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