Jeonju
Jeonju is the capital of North Jeolla province, South Korea. It is an administrative, educational, and cultural center in the central part of Jeollabuk-do.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Jeondong Catholic Church and Jeonju Hyanggyo.
Jeondong Catholic Church
Church
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The Jeondong Cathedral also known as the Old Cathedral of Jeondong and now as the Jeondong Church of Francis Xavier is an important Catholic church in Jeonju, South Korea.
Jeonju Hyanggyo
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The Jeonju Hyanggyo is a hyanggyo originally established at the Gyeonggijeon Shrine site in Jeonju, Korea, sometime early in the 15th century, during the Joseon Dynasty.
Jeonju
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, half million city, big city of South Korea, list of capitals in South Korea, and locality
- Location: Jeonju-si, North Jeolla, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.8167° or 35° 49′ northLongitude
127.15° or 127° 9′ eastPopulation
653,000Elevation
44 metres (144 feet)Open location code
8Q79R48X+MXOpenStreetMap ID
node 358015235OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1845457Wikidata ID
Q42140
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Jeonju” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جونجو”
- Armenian: “Չոնջու”
- Armenian: “Ջոնջու”
- Azerbaijani: “Concu”
- Balinese: “Jeonju”
- Basque: “Jeonju”
- Belarusian: “Чанджу”
- Bengali: “জিওনজু”
- Bengali: “জেওনজু”
- Bosnian: “Jeonju”
- Bulgarian: “Чонджу”
- Catalan: “Jeonju”
- Cebuano: “Jeonju-si”
- Cebuano: “Jeonju”
- Chinese: “Jeonju Chhī”
- Chinese: “全州市”
- Czech: “Čendžu”
- Czech: “Čondžu”
- Danish: “Jeonju”
- Dutch: “Jeonju”
- Esperanto: “Ĝonĝu”
- Estonian: “Jeonju”
- Finnish: “Jeonju”
- French: “Jeonju”
- German: “Jeonju-si”
- German: “Jeonju”
- Greek: “Τζόντζου”
- Gujarati: “જોન્જુ”
- Hebrew: “ג’אונג’ו”
- Hindi: “जेओञु”
- Hungarian: “Csondzsu”
- Indonesian: “Jeonju”
- Interlingue: “Jeonju”
- Irish: “Jeonju”
- Italian: “Jeonju”
- Japanese: “チョンジュ”
- Japanese: “チョンジュ市”
- Japanese: “全州市”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಯೊಂಜು”
- Kannada: “ಜೀನ್ಜು”
- Korean: “Jeonju-si”
- Korean: “전주시”
- Latvian: “Čondžu”
- Lithuanian: “Džondžu”
- Lombard: “Jeonju”
- Luxembourgish: “Jeonju”
- Malay: “Jeonju”
- Marathi: “जॉन्जु”
- Marathi: “जॉन्जू”
- Mazanderani: “جئونجو”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jeonju Chhī”
- Mingrelian: “ჩონჯუ (ოორუე ჩოლა)”
- Mingrelian: “ჩონჯუ”
- Moksha: “Чонджу”
- Mongolian: “Чоньжү”
- Northern Frisian: “Jeonju”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jeonju”
- Norwegian: “Jeonju”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jeonju”
- Persian: “جئونجو”
- Persian: “جونجو”
- Polish: “Chŏnju”
- Polish: “Jeonju”
- Portuguese: “Jeonju”
- Russian: “Чонджу”
- Scots: “Jeonju”
- Serbian: “Чонџу”
- Silesian: “Jeonju”
- Sinhala: “ජියෝන්ජු”
- Slovenian: “Džeondžu”
- Slovenian: “Jeonju”
- Spanish: “Jeonju”
- Swedish: “Jeonju-si”
- Swedish: “Jeonju”
- Tagalog: “Jeonju”
- Tamil: “ஜியாஞ்சு”
- Tatar: “Чонҗу”
- Tatar: “Чоңҗу”
- Telugu: “జేయోన్జు”
- Thai: “จอนจู”
- Thai: “ช็อนจู”
- Turkish: “Jeonju”
- Ukrainian: “Чонджу”
- Urdu: “جئونجو”
- Urdu: “جیون جو”
- Uzbek: “Chonju”
- Venetian: “Jeonju”
- Vietnamese: “Jeonju”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jeonju”
- Yue Chinese: “全州”
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