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: “Käčchŏn”, “Kaech’ŏn-ŭp”, “Kaechŏn”, “Kaechon City”, “Kaisen”, and “개천군”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kaechon station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kunu-dong.
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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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: “价川市”
- Czech: “Kečchon”
- Danish: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Dutch: “Kaechon”
- Esperanto: “Kaech’ŏn”
- Esperanto: “Keĉhon”
- Finnish: “Gaecheon”
- Finnish: “Kaech’ŏn”
- French: “Kaech’ŏn”
- 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: “价川市”
- Kalaallisut: “Kaechon”
- Kannada: “ಕೆಚೋನ್”
- Korean: “개천”
- 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’ŏn”
- 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: “Kaechon”
- Western Panjabi: “کیچن”
- Yue Chinese: “价川”
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Places to explore: 광복동 and 남천동.
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