Kaechon
Kaechon is in South Pyongan province in North Korea. Kaechon has about 320,000 residents.
- 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
Quarter
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″ north
Longitude
125.8888° or 125° 53′ 20″ east
Population
320,000
Elevation
35 metres (115 feet)
Open location code
8QF7PV3Q+9G
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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”
- Esperanto: “Keĉhon”
- 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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