Hamhung
Hamhŭng is North Korea's second-largest city, and a major port city and industrial hub. Hamhung is the capital of South Hamgyŏng Province and the 16th largest city in the Korean Peninsula.
- Type: City with 769,000 residents
- Description: city in North Korea
- Also known as: “Hamgyong”, “Hamhengas”, “Hamhunas”, “Hamhyng”, “Hienhing”, “Hungnam”, “Kankō”, “Хамхун”, “함흥”, “함흥군”, “함흥부”, “ハムフン”, “ハムン”, and “咸興府”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hamhung station and West Hamhŭng.
Hamhung station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.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, city of North Korea, and locality
- Location: South Hamgyong, Donghae Coast, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.9165° or 39° 54′ 60″ north
Longitude
127.5384° or 127° 32′ 18″ east
Population
769,000
Elevation
16 metres (52 feet)
United Nations Location Code
KP HGM
Open location code
8QF9WG8Q+J9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Hamhung” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Hamheung”
- Amharic: “ሃምሁንግ”
- Arabic: “هامهنغ”
- Arabic: “هامهونغ”
- Armenian: “Խամխին”
- Armenian: “Համհընգ”
- Azerbaijani: “Hamhung”
- Basque: “Hamhung”
- Belarusian: “Хамхын”
- Bengali: “হামহুং”
- Bengali: “হ্যামহুং”
- Bulgarian: “Хамхън”
- Catalan: “Hamheung”
- Catalan: “Hamhung”
- Cebuano: “Hamhŭng-si”
- Chinese: “咸兴市”
- Chinese: “咸興市”
- Czech: “Hamhung”
- Danish: “Hamhung”
- Danish: “Syd-Hamgyong”
- Dutch: “Hamhŭng”
- Esperanto: “Hamhungo”
- Finnish: “Hamheung”
- Finnish: “Hamhung”
- Finnish: “Hamhŭng”
- French: “Hamhung”
- French: “Hamhŭng”
- German: “Hamhŭng”
- Greek: “Χάμχουνγκ”
- Gujarati: “હમહંગ”
- Hausa: “Hamhung”
- Hebrew: “המהונג”
- Hindi: “हमहुंग”
- Hungarian: “Hamhung”
- Indonesian: “Hamhung”
- Interlingue: “Hamhung”
- Irish: “Hamhung”
- Irish: “Hamhǔng”
- Italian: “Hamhŭng”
- Japanese: “はむんし”
- Japanese: “咸興市”
- Javanese: “Hamhung”
- Kalaallisut: “Hamhŭng”
- Kannada: “ಹಮ್ಹಂಗ್”
- Karekare: “Hamhung”
- Kazakh: “Хамхын”
- Kirghiz: “Хамхын”
- Korean: “함흥시”
- Latin: “Hamheung”
- Latvian: “Hamhina”
- Lithuanian: “Hamhungas”
- Lombard: “Hamhung”
- Low German: “Hamhung”
- Malay: “Hamhung”
- Maori: “Hamhung”
- Marathi: “हॅमहुंग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hamhŭng Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Хамхөн”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hamhung”
- Norwegian: “Hamhung”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hamhung”
- Oromo: “Hamhung”
- Panjabi: “ਹਮਹੁੰਗ”
- Persian: “هامهونگ”
- Persian: “ہمهونگ”
- Polish: “Hamhŭng”
- Portuguese: “Hamhung”
- Pushto: “همهونگ”
- Romanian: “Hamhung”
- Russian: “Хамхын”
- Samogitian: “Hamhungs”
- Scots: “Hamhung”
- Serbian: “Хамхунг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hamhŭng”
- Sinhala: “හම්හන්ග්”
- Slovak: “Hamhung”
- Slovenian: “Hamhung”
- Somali: “Hamhung”
- Spanish: “Hamhung”
- Swahili: “Hamhung”
- Swedish: “Hamhung”
- Tagalog: “Hamhung”
- Tajik: “Хамхын”
- Tamil: “ஹாம்ஹுங்”
- Tatar: “Хамхын”
- Tatar: “Һамһың”
- Telugu: “హమ్హంగ్”
- Thai: “ฮัมฮึง”
- Turkish: “Hamhung”
- Ukrainian: “Хамхин”
- Urdu: “ہامہونگ”
- Urdu: “ہمہونگ”
- Uzbek: “Hamhung”
- Uzbek: “Xamxin”
- Venetian: “Hamhŭng”
- Vietnamese: “Hàm Hưng”
- Vietnamese: “Hamhung”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hamhung”
- Welsh: “Hamhung”
- Western Panjabi: “ہامہنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “咸兴市”
- Yue Chinese: “咸興”
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