Gwacheon
Gwacheon is a city in Gyeonggi, immediately south of Seoul. Its museums, zoo, amusement park and mountain trails make it a destination for day trips from the capital.
- City with 58,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 57 metres (187 feet)
- Description: city in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
- Also known as“Kwach’ŏn”“Kwach’ŏn-si”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gwanaksan and Gwacheon National Science Museum.
Gwacheon National Science Museum
Museum
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Anyang and Burim-dong.
Gwacheon
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Latitude
37.4289° or 37° 25′ 44″ north
Longitude
126.9882° or 126° 59′ 17″ east
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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: “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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