Gwangyang
Gwangyang is in South Jeolla on the south coast of South Korea. Positioned on the southern coast along Gwangyang Bay and bordered by Suncheon to the west and Hadong across the Seomjin River to the east, the city is best known as the heart of Korea's modern steel industry as well as the home of the country's earliest spring plum blossoms.
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- City with 152,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 24 metres (79 feet)
- Description: city of Jeollanam-do, South Korea
- Also known as“Gwangyang-si”“Tonggwangyang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gwangyang Fire Staiton and Gwangyang Post Office.
Gwangyang Fire Staiton
Fire station
Gwangyang Fire Staiton is a fire station.
Gwangyang Football Stadium
Stadium
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The Gwangyang Football Stadium, a.k.a. the Dragon…
Gwangyang
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Latitude
34.9406° or 34° 56′ 26″ north
Longitude
127.696° or 127° 41′ 45″ east
UN/LOCODE
KR KAN
Open location code
8Q69WMRW+79
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OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gwangyang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جوانج يانج”
- Armenian: “Քվանգջանգ”
- Bengali: “গোয়াংয়াং”
- Catalan: “Gwangyang”
- Cebuano: “Kwangyang”
- Chinese: “光阳市”
- Chinese: “光陽”
- Chinese: “光陽市”
- Czech: “Kwangjang”
- Danish: “Gwangyang”
- Dutch: “Gwangyang”
- Esperanto: “Kvanjan”
- Finnish: “Gwangyang”
- French: “Gwangyang”
- Georgian: “კვანიანი”
- German: “Gwangyang”
- Greek: “Γκουάνγιανγκ”
- Gujarati: “ગ્વાંગયાંગ”
- Hindi: “ग्वांगयांग”
- Hungarian: “Kvangjang”
- Indonesian: “Gwangyang”
- Irish: “Gwangyang”
- Italian: “Gwangyang”
- Japanese: “クァンヤンし”
- Japanese: “光陽市”
- Javanese: “Gwangyang”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಂಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್”
- Korean: “Gwangyang-si”
- Korean: “광양”
- Korean: “광양시”
- Korean: “전남 광양”
- Korean: “전남 광양시”
- Latvian: “Kvanjana”
- Lingua Franca Nova: “Gwangyang”
- Lithuanian: “Gvangdžangas”
- Lithuanian: “Gvangjangas”
- Lombard: “Gwangyang”
- Malay: “Gwangyang”
- Marathi: “ग्वांग्ययांग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gwangyang Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Куан-Ян”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gwangyang”
- Norwegian: “Gwangyang”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gwangyang”
- Persian: “گوانگیانگ”
- Polish: “Gwangyang”
- Portuguese: “Gwangyang”
- Romanian: “Gwangyang”
- Russian: “Кванъян”
- Sinhala: “ග්වන්ග්යාන්”
- Spanish: “Gwangyang”
- Swedish: “Gwangyang”
- Tagalog: “Gwangyang”
- Tamil: “குவாங்யாங்”
- Tatar: “Кваңъяң”
- Telugu: “గ్వాంగ్యాంగ్”
- Thai: “กวางยาง”
- Turkish: “Gwangyang”
- Ukrainian: “Кван’ян”
- Urdu: “گوانگ یانگ”
- Urdu: “گوانگیانگ”
- Venetian: “Gwangyang”
- Vietnamese: “Gwangyang”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gwangyang”
- Yue Chinese: “光陽”
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