Cheonan

Cheonan is a city in , . Cheonan is a name derived from heaven. This is because King Taejo of Goryeo named it the "Most important place under the sky." Also, to this day, Cheonan citizens still call Cheonan the most comfortable place under the sky and joke that it is safe from natural disasters such as typhoons.
  • City with 658,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 40 metres (131 feet)
  • Description: city in South Korea
  • Also known as
    “Tenan”
    “Thyen-ān”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cheonan-Asan and Cheonan.
Cheonan–Asan station is a ground-level train station…
station is the main train station in central…
is a railway station on the Janghang Line…

Cheonan

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Latitude
36.815° or 36° 48′ 54″ north
Longitude
127.1141° or 127° 6′ 51″ east
UN/LOCODE
KR CHO
Open location code
8Q89R487+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cheonan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشونان”
  • Armenian: “Չոնան”
  • Asturian: “Cheonan”
  • Belarusian: “Чханан”
  • Bengali: “চেওনান”
  • Breton: “Cheonan”
  • Catalan: “Cheonan”
  • Cebuano: “Cheonan”
  • Chinese: “天安市”
  • Czech: “Čchonan”
  • Danish: “Cheonan”
  • Dutch: “Cheonan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشونان”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉonano”
  • Estonian: “Ch’ŏnan”
  • Estonian: “Cheonan”
  • Finnish: “Cheonan”
  • French: “Cheonan”
  • German: “Cheonan”
  • Greek: “Τσόναν”
  • Gujarati: “ચેઓનાન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cheonan Sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thiên-ôn-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אונאן”
  • Hindi: “चेनाण”
  • Hungarian: “Cshonan”
  • Indonesian: “Cheonan”
  • Italian: “Cheonan”
  • Japanese: “チョナン市”
  • Japanese: “天安市”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಯೋನಾನ್”
  • Korean: “Cheonan-si”
  • Korean: “천안시”
  • Korean: “天安市”
  • Latvian: “Čeonana”
  • Lithuanian: “Čeonanas”
  • Malay: “Cheonan”
  • Marathi: “चेओनान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cheonan Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Чонан”
  • Mongolian: “Чонань”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheonan”
  • Norwegian: “Cheonan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Cheonan”
  • Persian: “چئونان”
  • Persian: “چونان”
  • Polish: “Cheonan”
  • Portuguese: “Cheonan”
  • Romanian: “Cheonan”
  • Russian: “Чхонан”
  • Sinhala: “චියෝනන්”
  • Slovenian: “Čeonan”
  • Slovenian: “Cheonan”
  • Spanish: “Cheonan”
  • Swedish: “Cheonan”
  • Tagalog: “Cheonan”
  • Tamil: “சியாநான்”
  • Tatar: “Чонан”
  • Telugu: “చేయనాన్”
  • Thai: “โชนัน”
  • Turkish: “Cheonan”
  • Turkish: “şehir”
  • Ukrainian: “Чхонан”
  • Urdu: “چیونان”
  • Vietnamese: “Cheonan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cheonan”
  • Yue Chinese: “天安”
  • Yue Chinese: “天安市”
  • “천안”

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