Gimcheon
Gimcheon, or Kimcheon, is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. The official brand slogan of Gimcheon is “The Center of Korea, Gimcheon—Connected in All Directions.” The phrase Satongpaldal, literally meaning “open and connected in all directions,” is used to highlight the city’s role as a major transportation hub.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 143,000 residents
- Description: city in South Korea
- Also known as: “Kimch’ŏn-si” and “Kŭmch’ŏn-si”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gimcheon station and Gimcheon Stadium.
Gimcheon station
Railway station
Photo: Klockarnils, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gimcheon Station is a railway station on the Gyeongbu Line and the Gyeongbuk Line.
Gimcheon Stadium
Stadium
The Gimcheon Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Gimcheon, South Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of the K League 1 team Gimcheon Sangmu FC. The stadium has a seating capacity for 25,000 spectators.
Gimcheon
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: Gimcheon-si, North Gyeongsang, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.1398° or 36° 8′ 23″ northLongitude
128.114° or 128° 6′ 50″ eastPopulation
143,000Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)Open location code
8Q8C44Q7+WHOpenStreetMap ID
node 415162581OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1842944Wikidata ID
Q42078
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gimcheon” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gimcheon”
- Arabic: “غيمتشون”
- Belarusian: “Кімчхон”
- Bulgarian: “Кимчхон”
- Catalan: “Gimcheon”
- Cebuano: “Gimcheon-si”
- Cebuano: “Gimcheon”
- Chinese: “Gimcheon Chhī”
- Chinese: “金泉”
- Chinese: “金泉市”
- Croatian: “Gimcheon”
- Czech: “Kimčchon”
- Dutch: “Gimcheon”
- Esperanto: “Kimĉon”
- French: “Gimcheon”
- German: “Gimcheon”
- Greek: “Γκίμτσον”
- Hebrew: “גימצ’ון”
- Indonesian: “Gimcheon”
- Irish: “Gimcheon”
- Italian: “Gimcheon”
- Japanese: “金泉市”
- Javanese: “Gimcheon”
- Korean: “Gimcheon-si”
- Korean: “김 천시”
- Korean: “김천”
- Korean: “김천시”
- Lombard: “Gimcheon”
- Malay: “Gimcheon”
- Mazanderani: “گیمچان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gimcheon Chhī”
- Northern Frisian: “Gimcheon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gimcheon”
- Norwegian: “Gimcheon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gimcheon”
- Persian: “گیمچئون”
- Persian: “گیمچون”
- Polish: “Gimcheon”
- Russian: “Кимчхон”
- Slovenian: “Gimčeon”
- Spanish: “Gimcheon”
- Swedish: “Gimcheon-si”
- Swedish: “Gimcheon”
- Tagalog: “Gimcheon”
- Tatar: “Кимчон”
- Turkish: “Gimcheon”
- Urdu: “گم چیون”
- Urdu: “گمچیون”
- Venetian: “Gimcheon”
- Vietnamese: “Gimcheon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gimcheon”
- Yue Chinese: “金泉”
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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 “Gimcheon”. Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 4.0.