Chuncheon

Chuncheon is the capital of , the northeasternmost province of . For travelers weary of Seoul's crowds and big city atmosphere, Chuncheon can be an enjoyable place to spend several days.
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  • Type: City with 280,000 residents
  • Description: city in South Korea, capital of Gangwon Province
  • Also known as: “Ch’unch’ŏn”, “Chhun-chhen”, “Chun Chon City”, “Shunsen”, “Shusen”, “Syunsen”, and “Tsch-hun-tsch-hŏn”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chuncheon station and Diocese of Chuncheon.

Railway station
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is a railway station on, and the eastern terminus of the Gyeongchun Line in Geunhwa-dong, Chuncheon, . It was opened in 1939 as a regular train station and became a subway stop in 2010.

Place of worship
The Diocese of Chunchon is a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church in . A suffragan in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan , it has ecclesiastic authority over the administrative province of Gangwon-do.

Hospital
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Chuncheon

Latitude
37.8811° or 37° 52′ 52″ north
Longitude
127.7298° or 127° 43′ 47″ east
Population
280,000
Elevation
92 metres (302 feet)
IATA airport code
QUN
United Nations Location Code
KR CHC
Open location code
8Q99VPJH+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358015347
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1845136
Wiki­data ID
Q42148
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chuncheon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشنتشون”
  • Arabic: “شونشيون”
  • Armenian: “Չունչոն”
  • Basque: “Chuncheon”
  • Belarusian: “Чхунчхон”
  • Bengali: “চুনচেওন”
  • Catalan: “Chuncheon”
  • Cebuano: “Chuncheon (kapital sa lalawigan sa Habagatang Korea)”
  • Cebuano: “Chuncheon-si”
  • Chinese: “Chuncheon Chhī”
  • Chinese: “春川”
  • Chinese: “春川市”
  • Czech: “Čchunčchon”
  • Danish: “Chuncheon”
  • Dutch: “Chuncheon”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉunĉon”
  • Estonian: “Ch’unch’ŏn”
  • Estonian: “Chuncheon”
  • Finnish: “Chuncheon”
  • French: “Chuncheon”
  • German: “Chuncheon”
  • Greek: “Τσούντσον”
  • Gujarati: “ચુચેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chhûn-chhôn-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chuncheon Sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ונצ’ון”
  • Hindi: “चुंचीओं”
  • Hungarian: “Cshuncshon”
  • Indonesian: “Chuncheon”
  • Irish: “Chuncheon”
  • Italian: “Chuncheon”
  • Japanese: “チュンチョン市”
  • Japanese: “春川市”
  • Javanese: “Chuncheon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Chuncheon”
  • Kannada: “ಚುನ್ಚೆಯಾನ್”
  • Korean: “Chuncheon-si”
  • Korean: “춘천”
  • Korean: “춘천시”
  • Latvian: “Čhunčhona”
  • Lithuanian: “Čunčonas”
  • Lombard: “Chuncheon”
  • Macedonian: “Чунчон”
  • Malay: “Chuncheon”
  • Marathi: “चांचेऑन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chuncheon Chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩუნჩონი”
  • Mongolian: “Чүнчон хот”
  • Mongolian: “Чүньчонь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chuncheon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chuncheon”
  • Norwegian: “Chuncheon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chuncheon”
  • Ossetian: “Чхунчхон (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Чхунчхон”
  • Persian: “چانچئون”
  • Persian: “چانچنئون”
  • Persian: “چونچون”
  • Polish: “Chuncheon”
  • Portuguese: “Ch’unch’ŏn”
  • Portuguese: “Chuncheon”
  • Romanian: “Chuncheon”
  • Russian: “Чхунчхон”
  • Scots: “Chuncheon”
  • Sinhala: “චන්චියෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Čchunčchon”
  • Slovenian: “Chuncheon”
  • Slovenian: “Čunčeon”
  • Spanish: “Ch’unch’ŏn”
  • Spanish: “Chuncheon”
  • Spanish: “Chunchon”
  • Swedish: “Chuncheon-si”
  • Swedish: “Chuncheon”
  • Tagalog: “Chuncheon”
  • Tamil: “சுன்சீயோன்”
  • Tatar: “Чунчон”
  • Telugu: “చుంచియోన్”
  • Thai: “ชุนชอน”
  • Thai: “ชุนช็อน”
  • Turkish: “Chuncheon”
  • Turkish: “Çunçeon”
  • Ukrainian: “Чхунчхон”
  • Urdu: “چون چیون”
  • Urdu: “چونچیون”
  • Venetian: “Chuncheon”
  • Vietnamese: “Chuncheon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chuncheon”
  • Wu Chinese: “春川市”
  • Yue Chinese: “春川”

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