Gangneung
Gangneung is the largest coastal city in Gangwon Province, third largest overall. Gangneung is nestled at the east side of South Korea's longest mountain range, Taebaek.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 214,000 residents
- Description: city in South Korea
- Also known as: “Gangreung”, “Kaguun”, “Kangnŭng”, and “Kōryō”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kwandong Hockey Centre and Gangneung Mail Center.
Kwandong Hockey Centre
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Catholic Kwandong University Gymnasium is located on the grounds of Catholic Kwandong University in Gangneung, Gangwon-do, South Korea. During the 2018 Winter Olympics, it is one of the two venues for Ice Hockey.
Gangneung Mail Center
Post office
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gangneung Mail Center is a post office.
Gangneung
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Gangneung station is a railway station on the Yeongdong Line and Gangneung Line in Gyo-dong, Gangneung, Gangwon, South Korea. All Sea Trains and Mugunghwa trains stopped at this station until September 14, 2014 when it was closed because of the construction of the Gangneung Line.
Gangneung
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: Gangneung-si, Gangwon, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.7525° or 37° 45′ 9″ northLongitude
128.876° or 128° 52′ 33″ eastPopulation
214,000Elevation
77 metres (253 feet)IATA airport code
KAGUnited Nations Location Code
KR KAGOpen location code
8Q9CQV3G+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 415153024OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1843137Wikidata ID
Q42056
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yakut—“Gangneung” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غانغننغ”
- Armenian: “Գանգնընգ”
- Bashkir: “Каннын”
- Belarusian: “Канын”
- Bengali: “গাংনেউং”
- Bengali: “গ্যাংনেউং”
- Bulgarian: “Каннин”
- Catalan: “Gangneung”
- Cebuano: “Gangneung-si”
- Cebuano: “Kang-neung”
- Chinese: “Gangneung Chhī”
- Chinese: “江陵市”
- Czech: “Kangnung”
- Danish: “Gangneung”
- Dutch: “Gangneung”
- Esperanto: “Kanin”
- Estonian: “Gangneung”
- Estonian: “Kangnŭng”
- Finnish: “Gangneung”
- French: “Gangneung”
- Georgian: “კანინი”
- German: “Gangneung”
- Greek: “Γκάνγκνουνγκ”
- Gujarati: “ગેંગનુંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gangneung Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kong-lîn-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “גנגניונג”
- Hindi: “गंगनङ्ग”
- Hungarian: “Gangneung”
- Hungarian: “Kangnung”
- Indonesian: “Gangneung”
- Interlingue: “Gangneung”
- Irish: “Gangneung”
- Italian: “Gangneung”
- Japanese: “カンヌン”
- Japanese: “かんぬんし”
- Japanese: “江陵”
- Japanese: “江陵市”
- Javanese: “Gangneung”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್ನಿಯಾಂಗ್”
- Korean: “Gangneung-si”
- Korean: “강릉”
- Korean: “강릉시”
- Latvian: “Gangneung”
- Latvian: “Kannina”
- Lithuanian: “Gangneungas”
- Lithuanian: “Gangningas”
- Lombard: “Gangneung”
- Low German: “Gangneung”
- Malay: “Gangneung”
- Marathi: “गॅंगनुंग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gangneung Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Каннөн”
- Northern Frisian: “Gangneung”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gangneung”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gangneung”
- Norwegian: “Gangneung”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gangneung”
- Persian: “گانگنئونگ”
- Persian: “گانگنونگ”
- Polish: “Gangneung”
- Portuguese: “Gangneung”
- Romanian: “Gangneung-si”
- Romanian: “Gangneung”
- Russian: “Каннын”
- Sinhala: “ගන්ග්නෙඋන්ග්”
- Spanish: “Gangneung”
- Swedish: “Gangneung-si”
- Swedish: “Gangneung”
- Tagalog: “Gangneung”
- Tamil: “காங்நங்”
- Tatar: “Каңның”
- Telugu: “గంగన్యూన్గ్”
- Thai: “กังเนือง”
- Thai: “คังนึง”
- Turkish: “Gangneung”
- Ukrainian: “Каннин”
- Urdu: “گانگنیونگ”
- Urdu: “گنگ نیونگ”
- Venetian: “Gangneung”
- Vietnamese: “Gangneung”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gangneung”
- Welsh: “Gangneung”
- Wu Chinese: “江陵市”
- Yakut: “Каннын”
- “Gangneung-si”
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