Kaechon
Kaechon is in South Pyongan province in North Korea. Kaechon has about 320,000 residents.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: City with 320,000 residents
- Description: city in North Korea
- Also known as: “Kaech’ŏn-ŭp”, “Kaechon City”, and “Kaisen”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaechon station.
Kaechon station
Railway station
Kaech'ŏn station is a railway station in Kaech'ŏn municipal city, South P'yŏngan province, North Korea, on the Manp'o Line of the Korean State Railway; it is also the starting point of the Kaech'ŏn Line to Sinanju, of the Choyang Colliery Line to Choyang Colliery and the Chunhyŏk Line to Chunhyŏngri.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kunu-dong.
Kunu-dong
Village
Kunu-dong is a village located in South Pyongan Province, North Korea. A key battle of the Korean War, the Battle of Kunu-ri, took place there in November 1950.
Kaechon
- Categories: city of North Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: South P’yŏngan Province, Pyongan, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.7035° or 39° 42′ 13″ northLongitude
125.8888° or 125° 53′ 20″ eastPopulation
320,000Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)Open location code
8QF7PV3Q+9GOpenStreetMap ID
node 5760486054OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1876401Wikidata ID
Q716127
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kaechon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيتشون”
- Basque: “Kaechon”
- Bengali: “কায়কুন”
- Catalan: “Gaecheon”
- Cebuano: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Chinese: “Kaech’ŏn Chhī”
- Chinese: “价川”
- Chinese: “价川市”
- Czech: “Käčchŏn”
- Czech: “Kečchon”
- Danish: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Dutch: “Kaechon”
- Esperanto: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Finnish: “Gaecheon”
- Finnish: “Kaech’ŏn”
- French: “Kaech’ŏn”
- French: “Kaechon”
- German: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Greek: “Γκέτσον”
- Gujarati: “કેચોન”
- Hebrew: “קאצ’ון”
- Hindi: “केएचओं”
- Hungarian: “Kecshon”
- Indonesian: “Kaechon”
- Irish: “Kaechon”
- Italian: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Japanese: “けちょんし”
- Japanese: “价川”
- Japanese: “价川市”
- Kalaallisut: “Kaechon”
- Kannada: “ಕೆಚೋನ್”
- Korean: “개천”
- Korean: “개천군”
- Korean: “개천시”
- Latvian: “Kečhona”
- Lithuanian: “Kaječonas”
- Lithuanian: “Kečonas”
- Malay: “Kaechon”
- Maori: “Kaechon”
- Marathi: “केचॉन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kaech’ŏn Chhī”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaechon”
- Norwegian: “Kaechon”
- Persian: “کائچون”
- Persian: “کهچون”
- Polish: “Kaech’on”
- Polish: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Polish: “Kaechon”
- Polish: “Kaechŏn”
- Portuguese: “Kaechon”
- Romanian: “Kaechon”
- Russian: “Кэчхон”
- Scots: “Kaechon”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Silesian: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Sinhala: “කයිචෝන්”
- Spanish: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Spanish: “Kaechon”
- Swahili: “Kaechon”
- Swedish: “Kaechon”
- Tamil: “காசோன்”
- Tatar: “Кечон”
- Telugu: “కెయెచోన్”
- Thai: “แคช็อน”
- Turkish: “Kaech’on”
- Turkish: “Kaechon”
- Ukrainian: “Кечхон”
- Urdu: “کائچون”
- Venetian: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Vietnamese: “Kaechon”
- Western Panjabi: “کیچن”
- Yue Chinese: “价川”
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