Gwangju

Gwangju, formerly romanized as Kwangju, is a metropolitan city in the center of province, . Gwangju has a thriving youth and arts culture and even a glance down the streets of 'Geumnam-ro' will note a generally more fashion-conscious populace.
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  • Type: City with 1,460,000 residents
  • Description: metropolitan city in South Korea
  • Also known as: “Cidade de Gwangju”, “Gwangju City”, “Gwangju-gwangyeoksi”, “Gwangju-si”, “Kōshū”, “Kōsyū”, “Kuangju”, “Kŭanĵuo”, “Kwang-choo”, “Kwang-dschu”, “Kwangdschu”, “Kwangdzu”, “Ville métropolitaine de Gwangju”, “গোয়াংজু প্রদেশ”, “ગ્વંગજુ”, “குவாங்ஜு”, “กวางจู”, and “グワンジュ”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights: Gwangju World Cup Stadium and Geungnakgang.

Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.
The is a multi-purpose stadium in Gwangju, South Korea. It is the home stadium of Gwangju FC of the K League and has a capacity of 40,245.

Railway station
Photo: Peremen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a railway station.

Fire station
Photo: Neoalpha, CC0.

Gwangju

Latitude
35.1595° or 35° 9′ 34″ north
Longitude
126.8515° or 126° 51′ 5″ east
Population
1,460,000
Elevation
47 metres (154 feet)
IATA airport code
KWJ
UN/LOCODE
KR KWJ
Open location code
8Q785V52+QJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358015168
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1841811
Wiki­data ID
Q41283
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Gwangju” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gwangju”
  • Afrikaans: “Gwangju”
  • Amharic: “ጓንጁ”
  • Arabic: “غوانغجو”
  • Armenian: “Գվանջու”
  • Armenian: “Կվանգջու”
  • Asturian: “Gwangju”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kvanju”
  • Balinese: “Gwangju”
  • Basque: “Gwangju”
  • Belarusian: “Кванджу”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াংজু”
  • Bengali: “গোয়াংজু”
  • Bislama: “Gwangju”
  • Bulgarian: “Куанджу”
  • Burmese: “ဂွမ်းဂျူမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Gwangju”
  • Cebuano: “Gwangju (lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Gwangju”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوانگجو”
  • Chechen: “Кванджу”
  • Chinese: “光州”
  • Chinese: “光州市”
  • Chinese: “光州广域市”
  • Chinese: “光州廣域市”
  • Croatian: “Gwangju”
  • Czech: “Kwangdžu”
  • Danish: “Gwangju”
  • Dutch: “Gwangju”
  • Dutch: “Kwangju”
  • Esperanto: “Gŭangĝu”
  • Esperanto: “Kŭangĵuo”
  • Estonian: “Gwangju”
  • Estonian: “Kwangju”
  • Finnish: “Gwangju”
  • French: “Gwangju”
  • Galician: “Gwangju”
  • German: “Gwangju”
  • Greek: “Γκουάνγκτζου”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાંગજુ”
  • Haitian: “Gouanjou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gwangju”
  • Hausa: “Gwangju”
  • Hebrew: “קוואנגג’ו”
  • Hebrew: “קוואנגגו”
  • Hindi: “ग्वांगजु”
  • Hindi: “ग्वांगजू”
  • Hungarian: “Kvangdzsu”
  • Ido: “Gwangju”
  • Indonesian: “Gwangju, Korea Selatan”
  • Indonesian: “Gwangju”
  • Interlingue: “Gwangju”
  • Irish: “Gwangju”
  • Italian: “Gwangju”
  • Japanese: “光州”
  • Japanese: “光州市”
  • Japanese: “光州広域市”
  • Japanese: “光州廣域市”
  • Javanese: “Gwangju”
  • Kalaallisut: “Gwangju”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಂಗ್ಜು”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gwangju”
  • Kazakh: “Кванджу”
  • Kazakh: “Кваңджу”
  • Kazakh: “Куаңжу”
  • Khmer: “ក្វាងជូ”
  • Kirghiz: “Гвангжу”
  • Kirghiz: “Кванже”
  • Korean: “Gwangju-si”
  • Korean: “광주”
  • Korean: “광주광역시”
  • Korean: “광주시”
  • Latin: “Kuangiu”
  • Latin: “Quansua”
  • Latvian: “Kvandžu”
  • Literary Chinese: “光州”
  • Literary Chinese: “光州廣域市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kvandžu”
  • Lithuanian: “Kvangdžu”
  • Lombard: “Gwangju”
  • Macedonian: “Квангџу”
  • Madurese: “Gwangju”
  • Malay: “Gwangju”
  • Maori: “Gwangju”
  • Marathi: “ग्वांगजू”
  • Marathi: “ग्वांग्जू”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gwangju”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gwangju Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kong-chiu-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “კვანჯუ”
  • Mongolian: “Куанжү”
  • Nepali: “ग्वांन्जु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gwangju”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gwangju”
  • Norwegian: “Gwangju”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gwangju”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kwangju”
  • Oromo: “Gwangju”
  • Ossetian: “Кванджу”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਆਂਗਜੂ”
  • Persian: “گوانگجو”
  • Polish: “Gwangju”
  • Polish: “Kwangju”
  • Portuguese: “Gwangju”
  • Pushto: “گوانجو”
  • Quechua: “Gwangju”
  • Romanian: “Gwangju”
  • Russian: “Кванджу”
  • Scots: “Gwangju”
  • Serbian: “Квангџу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gwangju”
  • Sinhala: “ග්වන්ග්ජු”
  • Slovak: “Kwangdžu”
  • Slovenian: “Gvangdžu”
  • Somali: “Gwangju”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوانگجو”
  • Spanish: “Gwangju”
  • Swahili: “Gwangju”
  • Swedish: “Gwangju”
  • Tagalog: “Gwangju”
  • Tajik: “Кванджу”
  • Tajik: “Квонҷу”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்கு”
  • Tamil: “குவாங்சூ நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Кванджу”
  • Tatar: “Кваңҗу”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాంగ్జూ”
  • Thai: “ควังจู”
  • Tok Pisin: “Gwanju”
  • Turkish: “Gwangju”
  • Ukrainian: “Кванджу”
  • Urdu: “گوانگ جو”
  • Uzbek: “Gwangju”
  • Uzbek: “Kvanju”
  • Venetian: “Gwangju”
  • Vietnamese: “Gwangju”
  • Volapük: “Gwangju”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gwangju”
  • Welsh: “Gwangju”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوانگجو”
  • Wu Chinese: “光州广域市”
  • Yue Chinese: “光州”

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