Chungju
Chungju is a city in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Uamsan is a mountain located within the outskirts of the city. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: koreanet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: City with 209,000 residents
- Description: City in North Chungcheong Province, South Korea
- Also known as: “Ch’ungju-si”, “Chhung”, “Chūshū”, “Tsch-hung”, and “Tyūsyū”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chungju Station and Chungju High School.
Chungju Station
Railway station
Photo: Korail2012, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chungju station is a railway station on Chungbuk Line and Jungbunaeryuk Line in Chungju, North Chungcheong, South Korea.
Chungju High School
School
Chungju High School is a public secondary boys' school in Chungju-city, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea. It is located on 37 Yeseong Gil. The 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, graduated from the school.
Chungju
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: North Chungcheong, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
36.9907° or 36° 59′ 27″ northLongitude
127.926° or 127° 55′ 34″ eastPopulation
209,000Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)IATA airport code
JWOUnited Nations Location Code
KR CHUOpen location code
8Q89XWRG+79OpenStreetMap ID
node 415155721OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1845033Wikidata ID
Q31094
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Satellite Map
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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: “Chungju Chhī”
- 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”
- 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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