Sonha station
Sonha station is a railway station located in Kaesŏng-t'ŭkkŭpsi, North Hwanghae province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngbu Line, which was formed from part of the Kyŏngŭi Line to accommodate the shift of the capital from Seoul to P'yŏngyang…Photo: Martin Cígler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Railway station
- Description: railway station in Kaesong
- Also known as: “Sonha”, “Sonha Station”, “Sonha-yŏk”, and “Sonhayeok”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sungyang Seowon and Kaesong Station.
Sungyang Seowon
Archaeological site
Photo: Photlas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sungyang Hall is a fourteenth-century Confucian academy located on the side of Mt. Janam in Kaesong, North Korea. The hall was constructed in the late fourteenth century for the home of the famously loyal statesman and Confucian scholar Chŏng Mong-ju, whose 1392 assassination by the agents of the later Taejo of Joseon marked the end of the Koryo dynasty. Sungyang Seowon is situated 2½ km northwest of Sonha station.
Kaesong Station
Railway station
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Kaesŏng station is a railway station located in Kaesŏng, North Hwanghae province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngbu Line, which was formed from part of the Kyŏngŭi Line to accommodate the shift of the capital from Seoul to P'yŏngyang; though this line physically connects P'yŏngyang to Pusan via Dorasan, in operational reality trains terminate here due to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Kaesong Station is situated 3½ km west of Sonha station.
Kaesong Youth Stadium
Stadium
The Kaesŏng Youth Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kaesŏng, North Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 35,000 spectators and opened in 1988. Kaesong Youth Stadium is situated 3 km northwest of Sonha station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kijong-dong and Panmunjeom.
Kijong-dong
Hamlet
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Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri, Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Kijong-dong is situated 7 km east of Sonha station.
Panmunjeom
Photo: Kok Leng Yeo, CC BY 2.0.
Panmunjeom, also P'anmunjŏm, is on the demarcation line between North and South Korea. It is a living relic of the Cold War era. It can only be visited on an organized tour.
Daeseong-dong
Village
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Daeseong-dong is a village in South Korea close to the North Korean border. It lies within the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The village is about 1.6 kilometres south of the Bridge of No Return, and 12 km from the city of Kaesong, North Korea. Daeseong-dong is situated 9 km east of Sonha station.
Sonha station
- Categories: station and transportation
- Location: Kaesŏng-si, Kaesong, Hwanghae, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.95758° or 37° 57′ 27″ northLongitude
126.58151° or 126° 34′ 53″ eastElevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
8Q98XH5J+2JOpenStreetMap ID
node 2591397645OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationGeoNames ID
13587864Wikidata ID
Q705239
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Russian—“Sonha station” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “孙河站”
- Chinese: “孫河”
- Chinese: “孫河站”
- French: “Sonha”
- Indonesian: “Stasiun Sonha”
- Japanese: “孫河”
- Japanese: “孫河駅”
- Korean: “손하”
- Korean: “손하역”
- Russian: “Сонха”
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