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South Chungcheong

Daejeon

Daejeon is the capital of province. Yuseong Hot Springs Resort and Daecheong Dam are amongst the city's most popular tourist attractions.
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  • Type: City with 1,440,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan city in South Korea
  • Also known as: “Daejeon-si”, “Daiden”, “Taejŏn”, “Taiden”, “Tētyan”, and “Thāi-tyen”
  • Neighbors: , , and
Photo: YooChung, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art and Dunsan Prehistoric Site.

Art gallery
Photo: YooChung, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Daejeon Museum of Art is located at 396 Mannyeon-dong, Seo-gu, across the river from the Expo Science Park, in Daejeon, . It opened on April 15, 1998.

Park
Photo: 이강철, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a park.

Hospital
Photo: 이강철, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a hospital.

Daejeon

Latitude
36.3497° or 36° 20′ 59″ north
Longitude
127.3849° or 127° 23′ 6″ east
Population
1,440,000
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
IATA airport code
QTW
United Nations Location Code
KR TJN
Open location code
8Q8989XM+VX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 257363455
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1835235
Wiki­data ID
Q20921
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Daejeon” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Daejeon”
  • Afrikaans: “Daejeon”
  • Arabic: “دايجون”
  • Arabic: “دايجيون”
  • Armenian: “Դեջոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Tecon”
  • Balinese: “Daejeon”
  • Bashkir: “Тэджон”
  • Basque: “Daejeon”
  • Belarusian: “Дэджон”
  • Belarusian: “Тэджон”
  • Bengali: “দাইজিওন”
  • Bengali: “দেজন”
  • Bislama: “Daejeon”
  • Breton: “Daejeon”
  • Bulgarian: “Теджън”
  • Burmese: “ဒယ်ဂျောန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Daejeon”
  • Cebuano: “Daejeon (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Daejeon”
  • Chechen: “Тэджон”
  • Chinese: “Daejeon Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Chinese: “大田”
  • Chinese: “大田广域市”
  • Chinese: “大田廣域市”
  • Croatian: “Daejeon”
  • Czech: “Tedžon”
  • Danish: “Daejeon”
  • Dutch: “Daejeon”
  • Dutch: “Taejon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دايجون”
  • Esperanto: “Daiĝono”
  • Esperanto: “Deĝon”
  • Estonian: “Daejeon”
  • Estonian: “Taejŏn”
  • Finnish: “Daejeon”
  • French: “Daejeon”
  • French: “Taejon”
  • French: “Ville métropolitaine de Daejeon”
  • Galician: “Daejeon”
  • German: “Daedschon”
  • German: “Daejeon-si”
  • German: “Daejeon”
  • Greek: “Ντέτζον”
  • Gujarati: “ડેજોન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Daejeon”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Thai-thièn Kóng-vet-sṳ”
  • Hausa: “Daejeon”
  • Hebrew: “דייג’און”
  • Hebrew: “טג’אן”
  • Hindi: “डाइजेन”
  • Hindi: “डाइजॉन”
  • Hindi: “डैजॉन”
  • Hungarian: “Tedzson”
  • Ido: “Daejon”
  • Indonesian: “Daejeon”
  • Interlingua: “Daejeon”
  • Irish: “Daejeon”
  • Italian: “Daejeon”
  • Japanese: “テジョン”
  • Japanese: “テジョン市”
  • Japanese: “テジョン広域市”
  • Japanese: “大田”
  • Japanese: “大田市”
  • Japanese: “大田広域市”
  • Javanese: “Daejeon”
  • Kalaallisut: “Daejeon”
  • Kannada: “ಡೇಜಿಯೋನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Тэджон”
  • Khmer: “ដែចន់”
  • Kirghiz: “Тэжон”
  • Korean: “대전”
  • Korean: “대전광역시”
  • Korean: “대전시”
  • Latin: “Daejeon”
  • Latvian: “Tedžona”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Daejeon”
  • Literary Chinese: “大田廣域市”
  • Lithuanian: “Tedžonas”
  • Lombard: “Daejeon”
  • Macedonian: “Теџон”
  • Malay: “Daejeon”
  • Maltese: “Daejeon”
  • Maori: “Daejeon”
  • Marathi: “देजॉन”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Daejeon”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Daejeon Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ტეჯონი”
  • Mongolian: “Тэжон”
  • Northern Frisian: “Daejeon”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Daejeon”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Daejeon”
  • Norwegian: “Daejeon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Daejeon”
  • Ossetian: “Тэджон”
  • Persian: “ته‌جون”
  • Persian: “دائجونگ”
  • Polish: “Daejeon”
  • Polish: “Taejŏn”
  • Polish: “Tedzon”
  • Portuguese: “Daejeon”
  • Portuguese: “Taejon”
  • Portuguese: “Taejŏn”
  • Quechua: “Daejeon”
  • Romanian: “Daejeon”
  • Russian: “Тэджон”
  • Scots: “Daejeon”
  • Serbian: “Tedžon”
  • Serbian: “Теџон”
  • Silesian: “Daejeon”
  • Sinhala: “ඩයිජියොන්”
  • Sinhala: “ඩයිජියෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Tädžon”
  • Slovenian: “Daedžeon”
  • Spanish: “Daejeon”
  • Swahili: “Daejeon”
  • Swedish: “Daejeon”
  • Tagalog: “Daejeon”
  • Tamil: “டேய்ஜேயோன்”
  • Tamil: “டேஜியோன்”
  • Tamil: “டேஜெயோன்”
  • Tatar: “Теҗон”
  • Telugu: “డాయిజియన్”
  • Thai: “แทจ็อน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Dejon”
  • Turkish: “Daejeon”
  • Ukrainian: “Теджон”
  • Urdu: “ڈائے جیون”
  • Uzbek: “Daejeon”
  • Uzbek: “Tejon”
  • Venetian: “Daejeon”
  • Vietnamese: “Daejeon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Daejeon”
  • Welsh: “Daejeon”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیجیون”
  • Wu Chinese: “大田广域市”
  • Yue Chinese: “大田”

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