Gongju
Gongju, formerly romanised as Kongju, is a city in South Chungcheong province, South Korea. Gongju is a major tourism drawcard of the South Chungcheong area, particularly amongst Japanese tourists of certain ethnic descent, curious about their ancient roots.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 110,000 residents
- Description: City in South Chungcheong Province, South Korea
- Also known as: “Kochu”, “Kong Tjou”, “Kong-dschu”, “Kongju”, “Kōshū”, and “Kōsyū”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gongju National Museum and Ancient Tombs in Songsan-ri.
Gongju National Museum
Museum
Gongju National Museum is a national museum in Gongju, South Korea. The Gongju National Museum holds 10,000 artifacts including 19 national treasures and 3 treasures excavated in Daejeon and Chungcheongnam-do areas, especially artifacts from Tomb of King Muryeong.
Ancient Tombs in Songsan-ri
Park
Photo: Ryuch, CC BY-SA 3.0.
There are a number of Baekje-era royal tombs in Songsan-ri, Gongju, South Korea. On January 21, 1963, they were designated Historic Site of South Korea No. 13.
Gongsanseong Fortress, Gongju
Castle
Photo: Ashy Minivet, CC0.
Gongsanseong is a castle in Gongju, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea.
Gongju
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: South Chungcheong, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.4726° or 36° 28′ 21″ northLongitude
127.0912° or 127° 5′ 29″ eastPopulation
110,000Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)United Nations Location Code
KR GOJOpen location code
8Q89F3FR+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 415161922OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gongju” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جونجو”
- Armenian: “Գոնգջու”
- Belarusian: “Конджу”
- Bengali: “গংজু”
- Catalan: “Gongju”
- Cebuano: “Gongju-si”
- Cebuano: “Gongju”
- Central Kurdish: “گۆنگجو”
- Chinese: “Gongju Chhī”
- Chinese: “公州”
- Chinese: “公州市”
- Czech: “Kongdžu”
- Danish: “Gongju”
- Dutch: “Gongju”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جونجو”
- Esperanto: “Konĝu”
- Estonian: “Gongju”
- Finnish: “Gongju”
- French: “Gongju”
- French: “Kongju”
- German: “Gongju”
- Greek: “Γκόνγκτζου”
- Gujarati: “ગોન્ગજુ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gongju Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kûng-chû-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “קונגג’ו”
- Hindi: “गोंग्जू”
- Hungarian: “Kongdzsu”
- Hungarian: “공주시”
- Ido: “Gongju”
- Indonesian: “Gongju”
- Irish: “Gongju”
- Italian: “Gongju”
- Japanese: “公州市”
- Javanese: “Gongju”
- Kannada: “ಗೊಂಗ್ಜು”
- Korean: “Gongju-si”
- Korean: “공주”
- Korean: “공주시”
- Latvian: “Gongdžu”
- Lithuanian: “Gongdžu”
- Malay: “Gongju”
- Marathi: “गोंगजू”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kong-chiu-chhī”
- Mongolian: “Кунжү”
- Newari: “गोंगजु”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gongju”
- Norwegian: “Gongju”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gongju”
- Persian: “گنگجو”
- Polish: “Gongju”
- Polish: “Kongju”
- Portuguese: “Gongju”
- Russian: “Конджу”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gongju”
- Sinhala: “ගොන්ජු”
- Spanish: “Gongju”
- Swedish: “Gongju-si”
- Swedish: “Gongju”
- Tagalog: “Gongju”
- Tamil: “காங்ஜூ”
- Tatar: “Коңҗу”
- Telugu: “గోంగ్జు”
- Thai: “ค็องจู”
- Turkish: “Gongju”
- Ukrainian: “Конджу”
- Urdu: “گونگ جو”
- Urdu: “گونگجو”
- Venetian: “Gongju”
- Vietnamese: “Gongju”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gongju”
- Yue Chinese: “公州”
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