Chungju

Chungju is a city in , South Korea. The city is famous for the annual martial arts festival held in October, and for being the hometown of former UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.
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  • City with 209,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 85 metres (279 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code JWO
  • Description: City in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
  • Also known as
    “Ch’ungju-si”
    “Chhung”
    “Chūshū”
    “Tsch-hung”
    “Tyūsyū”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chungju Station and Chungju Bus Terminal.
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is a railway station on Chungbuk Line…
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is a bus station.
is a public secondary boys' school…

Chungju

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Latitude
36.9907° or 36° 59′ 27″ north
Longitude
127.926° or 127° 55′ 34″ east
UN/LOCODE
KR CHU
Open location code
8Q89XWRG+79
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415155721
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1845033
Wiki­data ID
Q31094

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Chungju” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشنغجو”
  • Armenian: “Չունգջու”
  • Belarusian: “Чхунджу”
  • Bengali: “চুংজু”
  • Catalan: “Chungju”
  • Cebuano: “Chungju-si”
  • Cebuano: “Chungju”
  • Chinese: “忠州”
  • Chinese: “忠州市”
  • Czech: “Čchungdžu”
  • Danish: “Chungju”
  • Dutch: “Chungju”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉunĝu”
  • Estonian: “Ch’ungju”
  • Estonian: “Chungju”
  • Finnish: “Chungju”
  • French: “Chongju”
  • French: “Chungju”
  • German: “Chungju-si”
  • German: “Chungju”
  • Greek: “Τσούνγκτζου”
  • Gujarati: “ચુંગ્જુ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chûng-chû-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Chungju Sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ונגג’ו”
  • Hindi: “चुंगजू”
  • Hungarian: “Cshungdzsu”
  • Indonesian: “Chungju”
  • Irish: “Chungju”
  • Italian: “Chungju”
  • Japanese: “ちゅんじゅし”
  • Japanese: “チュンジュ市”
  • Japanese: “忠州市”
  • Javanese: “Chungju”
  • Kannada: “ಚುಂಗ್ಜು”
  • Kashmiri: “چُنٛگجو”
  • Korean: “Chungju-si”
  • Korean: “충주”
  • Korean: “충주시”
  • Latvian: “Čungdžu”
  • Lithuanian: “Čungdžu”
  • Malay: “Chungju”
  • Marathi: “चुंगजू”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chungju Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Чүнжү”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chungju”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chungju”
  • Norwegian: “Chungju”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chungju”
  • Persian: “چونگجو”
  • Polish: “Chungju”
  • Portuguese: “Chungju”
  • Romanian: “Chungju”
  • Russian: “Чхунджу”
  • Sinhala: “චන්ග්ජු”
  • Slovak: “Čchungdžu”
  • Slovak: “충주시”
  • Slovak: “忠州市”
  • Slovenian: “Chungju”
  • Spanish: “Chungju”
  • Swedish: “Chungju-si”
  • Swedish: “Chungju”
  • Tagalog: “Chungju”
  • Tajik: “Чхунҷу”
  • Tamil: “சுங்ஜூ”
  • Tatar: “Чуңҗу”
  • Telugu: “చున్గజు”
  • Thai: “ชุงจู”
  • Turkish: “Chungju”
  • Turkish: “Çungcu”
  • Ukrainian: “Чхунджу”
  • Urdu: “چونگ جو”
  • Urdu: “چونگجو”
  • Venetian: “Chungju”
  • Vietnamese: “Chungju”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chungju”
  • Yue Chinese: “忠州”

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