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North Gyeongsang
Gyeongju-si

Gyeongju

Gyeongju is in province, . The capital of the Silla Kingdom for approximately the whole first millennium CE, Gyeongju is definitely worth visiting if you are at all interested in Korean history.
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  • Type: City with 258,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
  • Also known as: “Keishū”, “Keisyū”, “Kjöng-dschu”, “Kyeng-chu”, “Kyeng-ju”, “Kyong-choo”, “Kyongiu”, “Kyongju”, and “Kyŏngju”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Cheomseongdae Observatory and Donggung Palace and Wolji Pond.

Observatory
Photo: phploveme, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cheomseongdae is an astronomical observatory in Gyeongju, South Korea. Cheomseongdae is the oldest surviving astronomical observatory in Asia, and possibly even the world.

Park
Photo: Korea Heritage Service, CC BY-SA 4.0.
are a Silla-era former palace and artificial pond in Gyeongju, South Korea. They were part of the palace complex of ancient Silla.

Buddhist temple
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is a temple complex from the Old Silla era of Korea. It is located in Gyeongju. The temple is recorded to have been built in 634 under the auspices of Queen Seondeok.

Gyeongju

Latitude
35.8557° or 35° 51′ 20″ north
Longitude
129.2249° or 129° 13′ 30″ east
Population
258,000
Elevation
45 metres (148 feet)
IATA airport code
XAY
United Nations Location Code
KR GJU
Open location code
8Q7FV64F+7X
Open­Street­Map ID
node 257370656
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1841603
Wiki­data ID
Q42097
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Gyeongju” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غيونغجو”
  • Armenian: “Գյոնգջու”
  • Armenian: “Գյոնջու”
  • Azerbaijani: “Köncu”
  • Basque: “Gyeongju”
  • Belarusian: “Кёнджу”
  • Bengali: “জায়েনজু”
  • Bulgarian: “Кьонджу”
  • Burmese: “ဂယောင်းဂျူမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Gyeongju”
  • Cebuano: “Kyonju”
  • Chinese: “Gyeongju Chhī”
  • Chinese: “庆州”
  • Chinese: “庆州市”
  • Chinese: “慶州”
  • Chinese: “慶州市”
  • Croatian: “Gyeongju”
  • Czech: “Kjongdžu”
  • Danish: “Gyeongju”
  • Dutch: “Gyeongju”
  • Esperanto: “Kjonĝu”
  • Finnish: “Gyeongju”
  • French: “Gyeongju”
  • Galician: “Gyeongju”
  • German: “Gyeongju”
  • Greek: “Γκιόνγκτζου”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્યોંગજુ”
  • Hebrew: “קיונגג’ו”
  • Hindi: “ग्येओंग्जू”
  • Hungarian: “Kjongdzsu”
  • Ido: “Gyeongju”
  • Indonesian: “Gyeongju”
  • Irish: “Gyeongju”
  • Italian: “Gyeongju”
  • Japanese: “慶州市”
  • Javanese: “Gyeongju”
  • Kannada: “ಜಿಯಾಂಗ್ಜು”
  • Kirghiz: “Кёнжу”
  • Korean: “Gyeongju-si”
  • Korean: “경북 경주”
  • Korean: “경북 경주시”
  • Korean: “경상북도 경주”
  • Korean: “경상북도 경주시”
  • Korean: “경주”
  • Korean: “경주시”
  • Latvian: “Kjondžu”
  • Literary Chinese: “慶州”
  • Lithuanian: “Kjongdžu”
  • Lombard: “Gyeongju”
  • Malay: “Gyeongju”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്യോങ്ജു”
  • Maltese: “Gyeongju”
  • Marathi: “ग्योँगु”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gyeongju Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Кёнжү”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gyeongju”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gyeongju”
  • Norwegian: “Gyeongju”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gyeongju”
  • Ossetian: “Кёнджу”
  • Persian: “گیونگجو”
  • Polish: “Gyeongju”
  • Portuguese: “Gyeongju”
  • Portuguese: “Kyongiu”
  • Portuguese: “Kyongju”
  • Portuguese: “Kyŏngju”
  • Romanian: “Gyeongju”
  • Russian: “Кёнджу”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gyeongju”
  • Sinhala: “ජියෝන්ජු”
  • Slovak: “Kjongdžu”
  • Slovak: “Kumsong”
  • Slovak: “Sorabol”
  • Slovenian: “Gjongdžu”
  • Spanish: “Gyeongju”
  • Swedish: “Gyeongju”
  • Tagalog: “Gyeongju”
  • Tamil: “கியேஆங்ஜூ”
  • Tatar: “Кйоңҗу”
  • Telugu: “గ్యోయోంగ్జూ”
  • Thai: “คย็องจู”
  • Turkish: “Gyeongju”
  • Ukrainian: “Кьонджу”
  • Urdu: “گیونگ جو”
  • Urdu: “گیونگجو”
  • Venetian: “Gyeongju”
  • Vietnamese: “Gyeongju”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gyeongju”
  • Yue Chinese: “慶州”
  • “경주시”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Gyeongju”. Photo: riNux, CC BY-SA 2.0.