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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: City with 152,000 residents
- Description: city of Jeollanam-do, South Korea
- Also known as: “Gwangyang-si” and “Tonggwangyang”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gwangyang Fire Staiton and Gwangyang Post Office.
Gwangyang Football Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Gwangyang
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: Jungma-dong, Gwangyang-si, South Jeolla, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.9406° or 34° 56′ 26″ north
Longitude
127.696° or 127° 41′ 45″ east
Population
152,000
Elevation
24 metres (79 feet)
United Nations Location Code
KR KAN
Open location code
8Q69WMRW+79
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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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: “Gwangyang Chhī”
- 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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