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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 836,000 residents
- Description: City in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
- Also known as: “Cheongju-si” and “Chongju”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cheongju Stadium and Uamsan.
Cheongju Stadium
Stadium
Cheongju Sports Complex is a multi-use stadium in Cheongju, South Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home of K League 2 club Chungbuk Cheongju FC. Opened in 1965, the stadium has a seating capacity for 16,280 spectators.
Uamsan
Peak
Uamsan is a 353.2-meter peak in Chungju, South Korea. It belongs to the Hannam Geumbuk jeongmaek mountain range that extends northwest from the Cheonhwangbong Peak of Songnisan Mountain.
Chungcheongbuk-do Cheongju Medical Center
Hospital
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chungcheongbuk-do Cheongju Medical Center is a hospital.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.6421° or 36° 38′ 32″ northLongitude
127.4892° or 127° 29′ 21″ eastPopulation
836,000Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)IATA airport code
CJJUnited Nations Location Code
KR COJOpen location code
8Q89JFRQ+RMOpenStreetMap ID
node 309947253OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1845604Wikidata ID
Q42147
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cheongju” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشونغجو”
- Armenian: “Չհոնջու”
- Armenian: “Չոնգջու”
- Belarusian: “Чхонджу”
- Bengali: “চেওংজু”
- Catalan: “Cheongju”
- Cebuano: “Cheongju-si (kapital sa lalawigan)”
- Cebuano: “Cheongju-si (munisipyo)”
- Cebuano: “Cheongju-si”
- Chinese: “Cheongju Chhī”
- Chinese: “清州”
- 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”
- Hebrew: “צ’אונג’ו”
- Hindi: “चॉन्गजू”
- Hungarian: “Cheongju”
- Hungarian: “Chongju”
- Hungarian: “Cshongdzsu”
- Ido: “Chonju”
- Indonesian: “Cheongju”
- Irish: “Cheongju”
- Italian: “Cheongju”
- Japanese: “チョンジュ”
- Japanese: “チョンジュ市”
- Japanese: “清州市”
- Javanese: “Cheongju”
- Kannada: “ಚೊಂಗ್ಜು”
- Korean: “Cheongju-si”
- Korean: “청주”
- Korean: “청주시”
- Korean: “충북 청주”
- Korean: “충북 청주시”
- Korean: “충청북도 청주”
- Korean: “충청북도 청주시”
- Latvian: “Čongdžu”
- Lithuanian: “Čongdžu”
- 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”
- Ossetian: “Чхонджу”
- Persian: “چئونگجو”
- Persian: “چونگجو”
- Polish: “Cheongju”
- Portuguese: “Cheongju”
- Portuguese: “Chongju”
- Romanian: “Cheongju”
- Russian: “Чхонджу”
- Serbian: “Чонгџу”
- Silesian: “Cheongju”
- Sinhala: “චෙයෝන්ජු”
- Slovenian: “Cheongju”
- Spanish: “Cheongju”
- Swedish: “Cheongju-si (kommun)”
- Swedish: “Cheongju-si (provinshuvudstad)”
- Swedish: “Cheongju”
- Tagalog: “Cheongju”
- Tamil: “சேயோங்ஜூ”
- Telugu: “చెఒంగ్జూ”
- Thai: “ช็องจู”
- Turkish: “Cheongju”
- Ukrainian: “Чхонджу”
- Urdu: “چیونگ جو”
- Venetian: “Cheongju”
- Vietnamese: “Cheongju”
- Waray (Philippines): “Cheongju”
- Yue Chinese: “清州”
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