Hamhung
Hamhŭng is North Korea's second-most populous city, the capital of South Hamgyŏng Province and the 16th largest city in the Korean Peninsula. Located in the southern part of the South Hamgyong Province, Hamhung is the main and most populous metropolitan area in the province.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
- Type: City with 769,000 residents
- Description: city in North Korea
- Also known as: “Hienhing” and “Kankō”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hamhung station and West Hamhŭng.
Hamhung station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Hamhŭng station is a railway station in Yŏkchŏn 1-dong, Sŏngch'ŏngang-guyŏk, Hamhŭng city, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, located on the P'yŏngra Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the Sinhŭng Line and the Sŏho Line.
West Hamhŭng
Railway stop
Sŏhamhŭng station is a railway station in Sŏngch'ŏngang-guyŏk, Hamhŭng city, South Hamgyŏng province, North Korea, on the Sŏho Line of the Korean State Railway.
Hamhung
- Categories: city or town, big city, second-level administrative division, port city, industrial region, and locality
- Location: South Hamgyong, Donghae Coast, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.9165° or 39° 54′ 60″ northLongitude
127.5384° or 127° 32′ 18″ eastPopulation
769,000Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)United Nations Location Code
KP HGMOpen location code
8QF9WG8Q+J9OpenStreetMap ID
node 256629919OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hamhung” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Hamheung”
- Achinese: “Hamhung”
- Arabic: “هامهنغ”
- Armenian: “Խամխին”
- Armenian: “Համհընգ”
- Basque: “Hamhung”
- Belarusian: “Хамхын”
- Bengali: “হামহুং”
- Bengali: “হ্যামহুং”
- Bulgarian: “Хамхун”
- Bulgarian: “Хамхън”
- Catalan: “Hamheung”
- Catalan: “Hamhung”
- Cebuano: “Hamhŭng-si”
- Chinese: “Hamhŭng Chhī”
- Chinese: “咸兴市”
- Chinese: “咸興”
- Chinese: “咸興市”
- Czech: “Hamhung”
- Czech: “Hamhŭng”
- Danish: “Hamhung”
- Danish: “Syd-Hamgyong”
- Dutch: “Hamhung”
- Dutch: “Hamhŭng”
- Esperanto: “Hamhung”
- Esperanto: “Hamhŭng”
- Esperanto: “Hamhungo”
- Finnish: “Hamheung”
- Finnish: “Hamhung”
- Finnish: “Hamhŭng”
- French: “Hamheung”
- French: “Hamhung”
- French: “Hamhŭng”
- German: “Hamhung”
- German: “Hamhŭng”
- Greek: “Χάμχουνγκ”
- Gujarati: “હમહંગ”
- Hebrew: “המהונג”
- Hindi: “हमहुंग”
- Hungarian: “Hamhung”
- Indonesian: “Hamheung”
- Indonesian: “Hamhung”
- Interlingue: “Hamhung”
- Irish: “Hamhung”
- Irish: “Hamhǔng”
- Italian: “Hamhung”
- Italian: “Hamhŭng”
- Japanese: “ハムフン”
- Japanese: “ハムン”
- Japanese: “はむんし”
- Japanese: “咸興”
- Japanese: “咸興市”
- Japanese: “咸興府”
- Kalaallisut: “Hamhŭng”
- Kannada: “ಹಮ್ಹಂಗ್”
- Korean: “함흥”
- Korean: “함흥군”
- Korean: “함흥부”
- Korean: “함흥시”
- Latin: “Hamheung”
- Latvian: “Hamhina”
- Lithuanian: “Hamhengas”
- Lithuanian: “Hamhunas”
- Lithuanian: “Hamhungas”
- Lombard: “Hamhung”
- Low German: “Hamhung”
- Malay: “Hamhung”
- Maori: “Hamhung”
- Marathi: “हॅमहुंग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hamhŭng Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Хамхөн”
- Mongolian: “Хамхын”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamhung”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hungnam”
- Norwegian: “Hamhung”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hamhung”
- Persian: “هامهونگ”
- Polish: “Hamhung”
- Polish: “Hamhŭng”
- Polish: “Hamhyng”
- Portuguese: “Hamgyong”
- Portuguese: “Hamhung”
- Romanian: “Hamhung”
- Russian: “Хамхун”
- Russian: “Хамхын”
- Samogitian: “Hamhungs”
- Scots: “Hamhung”
- Serbian: “Хамхунг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hamhŭng”
- Sinhala: “හම්හන්ග්”
- Slovak: “Hamhung”
- Slovenian: “Hamhung”
- Slovenian: “Hamhŭng”
- Spanish: “Hamhung”
- Spanish: “Hamhŭng”
- Swahili: “Hamhung”
- Swedish: “Hamhŭng-si”
- Swedish: “Hamhung”
- Swedish: “Hamhŭng”
- Tagalog: “Hamhung”
- Tamil: “ஹாம்ஹுங்”
- Tatar: “Һамһың”
- Telugu: “హమ్హంగ్”
- Thai: “ฮัมฮึง”
- Turkish: “Hamhung”
- Ukrainian: “Хамхин”
- Urdu: “ہامہونگ”
- Uzbek: “Xamxin”
- Venetian: “Hamhŭng”
- Vietnamese: “Hàm Hưng”
- Vietnamese: “Hamhung”
- Vietnamese: “Hamhŭng”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hamhung”
- Welsh: “Hamhung”
- Western Panjabi: “ہامہنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “咸兴市”
- Yue Chinese: “咸興”
- “Hamhungs”
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