Gwacheon
Gwacheon is in Gyeonggi, just south of Seoul. The city grew as a planned city in 1980s and 90s when many of the government offices and facilities was moved from Seoul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 58,000 residents
- Description: city in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- Also known as: “Kwach’ŏn” and “Kwach’ŏn-si”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gwanaksan and Gwacheon National Science Museum.
Gwanaksan
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gwanaksan is a mountain in southern Seoul, South Korea. Portions lie in the Gwanak District and Geumcheon District of Seoul; other portions lie in the neighboring cities of Anyang, Gyeonggi and Gwacheon.
Gwacheon National Science Museum
Museum
Photo: Kwangmo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gwacheon National Science Museum is a national museum in Gwacheon, South Korea. It opened in 2008.
Seoul Land
Theme park
Photo: Bart0278, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seoul Land is an amusement park opened in 1988, in Gwacheon, a city in Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea. Located in the Seoul Grand Park complex, it opened just before the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burim-dong and Pyeongan-dong.
Pyeongan-dong
Quarter
Pyeongan-dong is a neighborhood of Dongan district in the city of Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Pyeongchon-dong
Quarter
Pyeongchon-dong is neighborhood of Dongan district in the city of Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
Gwacheon
- Categories: city of South Korea and locality
- Location: Gyeonggi, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.4289° or 37° 25′ 44″ northLongitude
126.9882° or 126° 59′ 17″ eastPopulation
58,000Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1910974426OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gwacheon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غواتشيون”
- Armenian: “Գվանչոն”
- Azerbaijani: “Kvaçxon”
- Bengali: “গোয়াচেন”
- Catalan: “Gwacheon”
- Cebuano: “Gwacheon-si”
- Cebuano: “Gwacheon”
- Chinese: “Gwacheon Chhī”
- Chinese: “果川”
- Chinese: “果川市”
- Czech: “Kwačchon”
- Danish: “Gwacheon”
- Dutch: “Gwacheon”
- Esperanto: “Gŭaĉon”
- Estonian: “Gwacheon”
- Finnish: “Gwacheon”
- French: “Gwacheon”
- Georgian: “კვაჩონი”
- Georgian: “კვაჩხონი”
- German: “Gwacheon”
- Greek: “Γκουάτσον”
- Gujarati: “ગ્વાચેઓન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gwacheon Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kó-chhôn-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “גוואצ’און”
- Hindi: “ग्वाचेंन”
- Hungarian: “Kvacshon”
- Indonesian: “Gwacheon”
- Italian: “Gwacheon”
- Japanese: “果川市”
- Javanese: “Gwacheon”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ವೆಚೆಯಾನ್”
- Korean: “Gwacheon-si”
- Korean: “과천”
- Korean: “과천시”
- Latvian: “Gvačeona”
- Lithuanian: “Gvačeonas”
- Luxembourgish: “Gwacheon”
- Malay: “Gwacheon”
- Marathi: “ग्वाच्यॉन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gwacheon Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Куачонь”
- Northern Frisian: “Gwacheon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gwacheon”
- Norwegian: “Gwacheon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gwacheon”
- Persian: “گواچئون”
- Polish: “Gwacheon”
- Romanian: “Gwacheon”
- Russian: “Квачхон”
- Sinhala: “ග්වචියෝන්”
- Slovak: “Kwačchon-si”
- Slovak: “Kwačchon”
- Slovak: “과천시”
- Slovak: “果川市”
- Spanish: “Gwacheon”
- Swedish: “Gwacheon-si”
- Swedish: “Gwacheon”
- Tagalog: “Gwacheon”
- Tamil: “இஃவாசேயோன்”
- Telugu: “గ్వాచెయోన్”
- Thai: “กวาชอน”
- Turkish: “Gwacheon”
- Ukrainian: “Квачхон”
- Urdu: “گواچیون”
- Vietnamese: “Gwacheon”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gwacheon”
- Yue Chinese: “果川”
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