Cheongju
Cheongju, also spelled Chongju, is the capital of North Chungcheong, South Korea. For a domestic traveler however, perhaps Cheongju's most notable asset is that it houses one of Korea's major domestic airports, serving Cheongju and the nearby major city of Daejeon.
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- Type: City with 836,000 residents
- Description: City in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
- Also known as: “Cheongju-si”, “Cheongju-si (kommun)”, “Cheongju-si (munisipyo)”, “Cheongju-si (provinshuvudstad)”, “Chongju”, “충북 청주”, “충북 청주시”, “충청북도 청주”, “충청북도 청주시”, “チョンジュ”, and “チョンジュ市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Cheongju Stadium and Uamsan.
Cheongju
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, half million city, list of capitals in South Korea, and locality
- Location: Cheongju-si, North Chungcheong, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.6421° or 36° 38′ 32″ north
Longitude
127.4892° or 127° 29′ 21″ east
Population
836,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
IATA airport code
CJJ
UN/LOCODE
KR COJ
Open location code
8Q89JFRQ+RM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Cheongju” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቼወንግጁ-ሲ”
- Arabic: “تشونغجو”
- Arabic: “تشيونغجو”
- Armenian: “Չհոնջու”
- Armenian: “Չոնգջու”
- Azerbaijani: “Cheongju-si”
- Belarusian: “Чхонджу”
- Bengali: “চিওংজু-সি”
- Bengali: “চেওংজু”
- Catalan: “Cheongju”
- Cebuano: “Cheongju-si (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Cheongju-si”
- Chinese: “清州市”
- Czech: “Čchongdžu”
- Danish: “Cheongju”
- Dutch: “Cheongju”
- Esperanto: “Ĉonĝuo”
- Estonian: “Ch’ŏngju”
- Estonian: “Cheongju”
- Finnish: “Cheongju”
- French: “Cheongju”
- German: “Cheongju”
- Greek: “Τσόνγκτζου”
- Gujarati: “ચેઓંગજુ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Cheongju Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Chhîn-chû-sṳ”
- Hausa: “Cheongju-si”
- Hebrew: “צ’אונג’ו”
- Hindi: “चियॉनग्जु-सी”
- Hindi: “चॉन्गजू”
- Hungarian: “Cshongdzsu”
- Ido: “Chonju”
- Indonesian: “Cheongju-si”
- Indonesian: “Cheongju”
- Irish: “Cheongju”
- Italian: “Cheongju”
- Japanese: “清州市”
- Javanese: “Cheongju-si”
- Javanese: “Cheongju”
- Kannada: “ಚೊಂಗ್ಜು”
- Kazakh: “Чхунджу”
- Kirghiz: “Чхунджу”
- Korean: “Cheongju-si”
- Korean: “청주”
- Korean: “청주시”
- Latvian: “Čongdžu”
- Lithuanian: “Čongdžu”
- Malay: “Cheongju-si”
- Malay: “Cheongju”
- Marathi: “चेओंगजू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cheongju Chhī”
- Mingrelian: “ჩონჯუ (ოორუე ჩუნჩონი)”
- Mingrelian: “ჩონჯუ”
- Mongolian: “Чонжү”
- Mongolian: “Чүнчонгийн Чонжү”
- Northern Frisian: “Cheongju”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheongju”
- Norwegian: “Cheongju”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cheongju”
- Oromo: “Cheongju-si”
- Ossetian: “Чхонджу”
- Panjabi: “ਚਿਓਂਗਜੂ-ਸੀ”
- Persian: “چئونگجو-سی”
- Persian: “چئونگجو”
- Persian: “چونگجو”
- Polish: “Cheongju”
- Portuguese: “Cheongju-si”
- Portuguese: “Cheongju”
- Pushto: “چیونگجو-سی”
- Romanian: “Cheongju”
- Russian: “Чхонджу”
- Russian: “Чхунджу”
- Serbian: “Чонгџу”
- Silesian: “Cheongju”
- Sinhala: “චෙයෝන්ජු”
- Slovenian: “Cheongju”
- Somali: “Cheongju-si”
- Spanish: “Cheongju-si”
- Spanish: “Cheongju”
- Swahili: “Cheongju-si”
- Swedish: “Cheongju”
- Tagalog: “Cheongju”
- Tajik: “Чхунджу”
- Tamil: “சேயோங்ஜூ”
- Tatar: “Чхунджу”
- Telugu: “చెఒంగ్జూ”
- Thai: “ช็องจู”
- Turkish: “Cheongju-si”
- Turkish: “Cheongju”
- Ukrainian: “Чхонджу”
- Urdu: “چیونگ جو”
- Urdu: “چیونگجو-سی”
- Uzbek: “Cheongju-si”
- Venetian: “Cheongju”
- Vietnamese: “Cheongju”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cheongju”
- Yue Chinese: “清州”
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