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Daegu

Daegu, formerly romanized as Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is 's fourth largest city, and the third largest metropolitan area in the nation, with over 2.5 million residents.
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  • Type: City with 2,470,000 residents
  • Description: Metropolitan city in South Korea
  • Also known as: “Daegu Metropolitan City”, “Daegu-si”, “Daikyū”, “Taegu”, “Taikandō”, and “Taikyū”
  • Neighbors: and

Places of Interest

Highlights include DGB Daegu Bank Park and Daegusiminundongjang Yagujang.

Stadium
Photo: Trainholic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Daegu iM Bank Park, known as the Daegu Forest Arena in the Asian Football Confederation international matches, is a located in Daegu, South Korea, and is the home stadium of the K League 1 club Daegu FC.

Stadium
Photo: adamgn, CC BY 2.0.
Daegu Baseball Stadium is a multi-use in Daegu, . It is currently used mostly for baseball games and was the home stadium of Samsung Lions between 1982 and 2015. The stadium was built in 1948.

Hospital
Photo: 대외, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is located in Daegu, South Korea. It was derived from the DongIn Clinic which opened in 1908. It is the central hospital of Gyeongsangbuk-do.

Daegu

Latitude
35.8713° or 35° 52′ 17″ north
Longitude
128.6018° or 128° 36′ 7″ east
Population
2,470,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
IATA airport code
TAE
United Nations Location Code
KR TAE
Open location code
8Q7CVJC2+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 257363453
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1835329
Wiki­data ID
Q20927
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Daegu” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Daegu”
  • Afrikaans: “Daegu”
  • Arabic: “دايغو”
  • Arabic: “ديغو”
  • Armenian: “Դեգու”
  • Asturian: “Daegu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tequ”
  • Balinese: “Daegu”
  • Basque: “Daegu”
  • Belarusian: “Тэгу”
  • Bengali: “ডায়গু”
  • Bengali: “দেগু”
  • Breton: “Daegu”
  • Bulgarian: “Тегу”
  • Burmese: “ဒယ်ဂူမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Daegu”
  • Cebuano: “Daegu (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Daegu”
  • Central Bikol: “Daegu”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێگو”
  • Chechen: “Тэгу”
  • Chinese: “Daegu Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Chinese: “大邱”
  • Chinese: “大邱广域市”
  • Chinese: “大邱廣域市”
  • Croatian: “Daegu”
  • Czech: “Tägu”
  • Czech: “Tegu”
  • Danish: “Daegu”
  • Dutch: “Daegu”
  • Esperanto: “Taeguo”
  • Esperanto: “Teguo”
  • Estonian: “Daegu”
  • Estonian: “Taegu”
  • Finnish: “Daegu”
  • French: “Daegu”
  • French: “Taegu”
  • French: “Tai-kou”
  • French: “Taikou”
  • French: “Taiku”
  • French: “Ville métropolitaine de Daegu”
  • Galician: “Daegu”
  • Georgian: “დეგუ”
  • Georgian: “ტეგუ”
  • German: “Daegu”
  • Greek: “Ντέγκου”
  • Gujarati: “ડેગૂ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Daegu”
  • Hausa: “Daegu”
  • Hebrew: “טגו”
  • Hindi: “डेगू”
  • Hindi: “दाएगू”
  • Hungarian: “Tegu”
  • Ido: “Daegu”
  • Iloko: “Daegu”
  • Indonesian: “Daegu”
  • Interlingue: “Daegu”
  • Irish: “Daegu”
  • Italian: “Daegu”
  • Italian: “Taegu”
  • Japanese: “デグ”
  • Japanese: “大邱”
  • Japanese: “大邱市”
  • Japanese: “大邱広域市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Daegu”
  • Kannada: “ಡೇಗು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Degu”
  • Kazakh: “Тэгу”
  • Khmer: “ដែហ្គូ”
  • Korean: “대구”
  • Korean: “대구광역시”
  • Korean: “대구시”
  • Lao: “ແທກູ”
  • Latin: “Daegu”
  • Latvian: “Tegu”
  • Literary Chinese: “大邱”
  • Literary Chinese: “大邱廣域市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tegu”
  • Lombard: “Daegu”
  • Luxembourgish: “Daegu”
  • Malay: “Daegu”
  • Malayalam: “ദേഗു”
  • Maltese: “Daegu”
  • Maori: “Daegu”
  • Marathi: “दैगू”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “دايگو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Daegu”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Daegu Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ტეგუ”
  • Moksha: “Тэгу”
  • Mongolian: “Тэгү”
  • Northern Frisian: “Daegu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Daegu”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daegu”
  • Norwegian: “Daegu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Daegu”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Taegu”
  • Ossetian: “Тэгу”
  • Persian: “ته‌گو”
  • Persian: “دائجو”
  • Polish: “Daegu”
  • Polish: “Taegu”
  • Polish: “Tegu”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade Metropolitana de Daegu”
  • Portuguese: “Daegu”
  • Portuguese: “Taegu”
  • Quechua: “Daegu”
  • Romanian: “Daegu”
  • Russia Buriat: “Тэгу”
  • Russian: “Город прямого подчинения Тэгу”
  • Russian: “Тэгу”
  • Scots: “Daegu”
  • Serbian: “Тегу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tegu”
  • Silesian: “Daegu”
  • Sinhala: “ඩයිගු”
  • Sinhala: “ඩයෙගු”
  • Slovak: “Tägu”
  • Slovenian: “Daegu”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Metropolitana de Daegu”
  • Spanish: “Daegu”
  • Swahili: “Daegu”
  • Swedish: “Daegu”
  • Swedish: “Taegu”
  • Tagalog: “Daegu”
  • Tamil: “டேகு”
  • Tamil: “தாய்க்கு”
  • Tamil: “தேகு”
  • Tatar: “Тегу”
  • Telugu: “డేగు”
  • Thai: “แทกู”
  • Tok Pisin: “Degu”
  • Turkish: “Daegu”
  • Ukrainian: “Тегу”
  • Urdu: “ڈائے گو”
  • Uzbek: “Degu”
  • Venetian: “Taegu”
  • Veps: “Tegu”
  • Vietnamese: “Daegu”
  • Vietnamese: “Đại Khâu”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Daegu”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیگو”
  • Wu Chinese: “大邱广域市”
  • Yue Chinese: “大邱”
  • Yue Chinese: “大邱廣域市”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Daegu”. Photo: Syonsi, CC0.