Chongjin
Chongjin is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province. It is the country's third-largest city by population and an important port city on the northeastern coast.
- Type: City with 668,000 residents
- Description: city in North Pyongan province, North Korea
- Also known as: “Ch’ongjin”, “Čhongdžinas”, “Chŏngjin”, “Chongjin (provinshuvudstad i Nordkorea)”, “Chonjin”, “Čongdžin”, “Čongdžinas”, “Czhongdzin”, “Seishin”, “Seisin”, “Tschiün-tschan”, “Tschongdschin”, “Сейсин”, “Сэйсин”, “Чонджин”, “Чхончжин”, “ชองจิน”, “나남”, “나남시”, “라남”, “라남시”, “청진부”, “청진직할시”, “清津府”, and “镜城”
Places of Interest
Highlights: North Hamkyung Library and Ch’ŏngjin Ch’ŏngnyŏn.
Chongjin
- Categories: city of North Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: North Hamgyong, Donghae Coast, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
41.7832° or 41° 46′ 60″ north
Longitude
129.8207° or 129° 49′ 14″ east
Population
668,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
RGO
UN/LOCODE
KP CHO
Open location code
8QHFQRMC+77
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Chongjin” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Cheongjin”
- Amharic: “ቾንግጂን”
- Arabic: “تشونغجين”
- Armenian: “Չհոնջին”
- Azerbaijani: “Chongjin”
- Azerbaijani: “Çxoncin”
- Basque: “Chongjin”
- Belarusian: “Чханджын”
- Belarusian: “Чхонджын”
- Bengali: “চংজিন”
- Bengali: “ছংজিন”
- Bulgarian: “Чхънджин”
- Catalan: “Chongjin”
- Cebuano: “Chongjin”
- Chinese: “清津市”
- Czech: “Čchongdžin”
- Danish: “Chongjin”
- Dutch: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Dutch: “Chŏngjin”
- Esperanto: “Ĉongĵin”
- Esperanto: “Ĉongĵino”
- Estonian: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Estonian: “Chŏngjin”
- Finnish: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Finnish: “Cheongjin”
- Finnish: “Chŏngjin”
- French: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- French: “Chongjin”
- French: “Chŏngjin”
- German: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Greek: “Τσόνγκτζιν”
- Hausa: “Chongjin”
- Hebrew: “צ’ונגג’ין”
- Hindi: “चोंग्जिन”
- Hungarian: “Cshongdzsin”
- Indonesian: “Chongjin”
- Irish: “Chongjin”
- Italian: “Chongjin”
- Japanese: “清津市”
- Javanese: “Chongjin”
- Kalaallisut: “Chongjin”
- Karekare: “Chongjin”
- Kazakh: “Чхонджин”
- Kirghiz: “Чхонджин”
- Korean: “청진시”
- Latin: “Cheongjin”
- Lithuanian: “Čondžinas”
- Low German: “Chongjin”
- Macedonian: “Чонгџин”
- Malay: “Chongjin”
- Maori: “Chongjin”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ch’ŏngjin Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Чонжинь”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chongjin”
- Norwegian: “Chongjin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Chongjin”
- Oromo: “Chongjin”
- Panjabi: “ਚੋਂਗਜਿਨ”
- Persian: “چونگجن”
- Persian: “چونگجین”
- Polish: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Polish: “Chŏngjin”
- Portuguese: “Chongjin”
- Pushto: “چونگجین”
- Romanian: “Chongjin”
- Russian: “Чхонджин”
- Russian: “Чхончжине”
- Scots: “Chongjin”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Silesian: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Somali: “Chongjin”
- Spanish: “Ch’ŏngjin”
- Spanish: “Chongjin”
- Spanish: “Chŏngjin”
- Swahili: “Chongjin”
- Swedish: “Chongjin”
- Tagalog: “Chongjin”
- Tajik: “Чхонджин”
- Tatar: “Чоңҗин”
- Tatar: “Чхонджин”
- Thai: “ช็องจิน”
- Turkish: “Chongjin”
- Ukrainian: “Чхонджін”
- Urdu: “چونگجن”
- Urdu: “چونگجین”
- Uzbek: “Chongjin”
- Uzbek: “Chxonjin”
- Venetian: “Chongjin”
- Vietnamese: “Chongjin”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chongjin”
- Welsh: “Chongjin”
- Western Panjabi: “چونگجن”
- Yue Chinese: “清津”
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