Chuncheon
Chuncheon is the capital of Gangwon, the northeasternmost province of South Korea. For travelers weary of Seoul's crowds and big city atmosphere, Chuncheon can be an enjoyable place to spend several days.
- City with about 282,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 100 metres (310 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code QUN
- Description: city in South Korea, capital of Gangwon Province
- Also known as“Ch’unch’ŏn”“Chhun-chhen”“Chun Chon City”“Shunsen”“Shusen”“Syunsen”“Tsch-hun-tsch-hŏn”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chuncheon station and Diocese of Chuncheon.
Chuncheon station
Chuncheon station is a railway station on, and the…
Diocese of Chuncheon
The Diocese of Chunchon is a Latin Catholic diocese of the Catholic Church in South Korea.
Chuncheon
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Latitude
37.8811° or 37° 52′ 52″ north
Longitude
127.7298° or 127° 43′ 47″ east
UN/LOCODE
KR CHC
Open location code
8Q99VPJH+CW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Yue Chinese—“Chuncheon” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ቹንቾን”
- Arabic: “تشنتشون”
- Arabic: “شونشيون”
- Armenian: “Չունչոն”
- Azerbaijani: “Chuncheon”
- Basque: “Chuncheon”
- Belarusian: “Чхунчхон”
- Bengali: “চুনচিওন”
- Catalan: “Chuncheon”
- Cebuano: “Chuncheon (kapital sa lalawigan sa Habagatang Korea)”
- Cebuano: “Chuncheon-si”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Chuncheon”
- Hebrew: “צ’ונצ’ון”
- Hindi: “चुंचियॉन”
- 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”
- Kazakh: “Чхунчхон”
- Kirghiz: “Чхунчхон”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Chuncheon”
- Ossetian: “Чхунчхон (сахар)”
- Ossetian: “Чхунчхон”
- Panjabi: “ਚੁਨਚਿਓਨ”
- Persian: “چانچئون”
- Persian: “چانچنئون”
- Persian: “چونچون”
- Polish: “Chuncheon”
- Portuguese: “Ch’unch’ŏn”
- Portuguese: “Chuncheon”
- Pushto: “چنچیون”
- Romanian: “Chuncheon”
- Russian: “Чхунчхон”
- Scots: “Chuncheon”
- Sinhala: “චන්චියෝන්”
- Slovak: “Čchunčchon”
- Slovenian: “Chuncheon”
- Slovenian: “Čunčeon”
- Somali: “Chuncheon”
- Spanish: “Ch’unch’ŏn”
- Spanish: “Chuncheon”
- Swahili: “Chuncheon”
- Swedish: “Chuncheon-si”
- Swedish: “Chuncheon”
- Tagalog: “Chuncheon”
- Tajik: “Чхунчхон”
- Tamil: “சுன்சீயோன்”
- Tatar: “Чунчон”
- Tatar: “Чхунчхон”
- Telugu: “చుంచియోన్”
- Thai: “ชุนช็อน”
- Turkish: “Chuncheon”
- Turkish: “Çunçeon”
- Ukrainian: “Чхунчхон”
- Urdu: “چون چیون”
- Uzbek: “Chuncheon”
- Venetian: “Chuncheon”
- Vietnamese: “Chuncheon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Chuncheon”
- Wu Chinese: “春川市”
- Yue Chinese: “春川”
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