Jeju

Jeju Island is an island off the southern coast of in the Korea Strait. Korea's largest island and a popular vacation spot and honeymoon destination for Koreans and Chinese, it is crowded with tourists all-year round.

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is 11 kilometers off the south coast of Jeju island.

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is on Jeju island to the south of the mainland.

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Jeju

  • Type: Island with 622,000 residents
  • Description: island south of the Korean peninsula, part of the Jeju Special Autonomous Province of South Korea
  • Also known as: “Che-ju”, “Cheju”, “Cheju I.”, “Cheju Is.”, “Cheju Island”, “Cheju Tō”, “Đảo Cheju”, “I. Quelpaert”, “I. Quelpart”, “Ile Quelpaert”, “ilha de Jeju”, “Insel Jeju”, “Isle of Quelpaert”, “Isle of Quelpart”, “Jeju Island”, “Jejudo”, “Pulo ng Cheju”, “Pulo ng Jeju”, “Pulu ning Cheju”, “Pulu ning Jeju”, “Quelpaerd Insel”, “Quelpaert”, “Quelpaert I.”, “Quelpaert Is.”, “Quelpaert Island”, “Quelpard”, “Quelpart”, “Quelpart I.”, “Saishū-tō”, “Saisyū”, “Saisyū Tō”, “Sammu-samda-do”, “Tamra”, “Tsche-dschu”, “Tse-tsiu”, “Tsitcheou-tao”, “Квельпарт”, “остров Чеджу”, “ג’ג’ו”, “جیجۆ”, “チェジュ島”, “済洲島”, and “耽羅島”
  • Historically known as: “Cheju-do” and “Quelpart Island”
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
33.4017° or 33° 24′ 6″ north
Longitude of center
126.5461° or 126° 32′ 46″ east
Population
622,000
Elevation
938 metres (3,077 feet)
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Jeju” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Jeju Island”
  • Afrikaans: “Jeju”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة جيجو”
  • Armenian: “Ջեջու կղզի”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Jeju”
  • Basque: “Jejudo”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Чэджу”
  • Bengali: “চেজু দ্বীপ”
  • Bengali: “জেজু দ্বীপ”
  • Bulgarian: “Чеджу-до”
  • Burmese: “ဂျယ်ဂျူးကျွန်း”
  • Burmese: “ဂျဲဂျူကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “illa de Jeju”
  • Catalan: “Illa de Jeju”
  • Cebuano: “Cheju-do”
  • Central Bikol: “Isla nin Jeju”
  • Central Kurdish: “دورگەی جیجۆ”
  • Chinese: “济州”
  • Chinese: “济州岛”
  • Croatian: “Jeju (otok)”
  • Croatian: “Jeju”
  • Czech: “Čedžu”
  • Dutch: “Jeju”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جزيره جيجو”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉeĝu”
  • Esperanto: “Ĵeĵudo”
  • Estonian: “Cheju saar”
  • Estonian: “Jeju saar”
  • Finnish: “Jeju”
  • French: “île de Jeju”
  • French: “Île de Jeju”
  • French: “Jeju”
  • Galician: “Illa Jeju”
  • German: “Jeju”
  • German: “Jejudo”
  • Greek: “Νησί Τζέτζου”
  • Greek: “Τζέτζου”
  • Hausa: “Tsibirin Jeju”
  • Hebrew: “צ’ג’ו”
  • Hindi: “जेजू द्वीप”
  • Hungarian: “Csedzsu-sziget”
  • Icelandic: “Jeju-eyja”
  • Ido: “Insulo Jeju”
  • Ido: “Jeju insulo”
  • Indonesian: “Jeju”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Jeju”
  • Italian: “Isola di Jeju”
  • Japanese: “済州島”
  • Javanese: “Pulo Jéju”
  • Kashmiri: “جیجوٗ لانٛکھ”
  • Komering: “Pulau Jeju”
  • Korean: “제주도”
  • Lao: “ເກາະ ເຈຈູ”
  • Lao: “ເກາະເຈຈູ”
  • Latin: “Insula Jeju”
  • Latvian: “Čedžudo sala”
  • Latvian: “Čedžudo”
  • Literary Chinese: “濟州島”
  • Macedonian: “Чеџу”
  • Malay: “Jeju”
  • Malay: “Pulau Jeju”
  • Malayalam: “ജെജു ദ്വീപ്”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta‘ Jeju”
  • Maltese: “Gżira ta’ Jeju”
  • Mongolian: “Чэжү арал”
  • Newari: “जेजु न्हसिभु”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cheju-do”
  • Ossetian: “Чеджудо”
  • Pampanga: “Jeju Pulu”
  • Persian: “ججودو”
  • Persian: “جزیره ججو”
  • Polish: “Czedżu”
  • Portuguese: “ilha Jeju”
  • Portuguese: “Jeju”
  • Romanian: “insula Jeju”
  • Romanian: “Insula Jeju”
  • Russian: “Чеджудо”
  • Serbian: “Чеџу”
  • Slovak: “Čedžu-do”
  • Slovenian: “Čedžu”
  • Slovenian: “otok Čedžu”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Jeju”
  • Spanish: “Jeju”
  • Swahili: “Kisiwa Jeju”
  • Swedish: “Jeju”
  • Tagalog: “Jeju-do”
  • Thai: “เกาะเชจู”
  • Turkish: “Jeju Adası”
  • Turkish: “Jejudo”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Чеджу”
  • Ukrainian: “Чеджу”
  • Urdu: “جزیرہ جیجو”
  • Urdu: “جینودو”
  • Vietnamese: “Đảo Jeju”
  • Vietnamese: “Jeju”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jeju (purô)”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Jeju”
  • Wu Chinese: “济州岛”
  • Yue Chinese: “濟州島”

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