Kaesong

Kaesŏng is a city in , only 8 km from the with . Twelve historic monuments and sites in Kaesong were inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013.
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  • Type: City with 308,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Korea
  • Also known as: “Gaegyeong”, “Gaesong”, “Kaesiongas”, “Kaesŏng-si”, “Kägjong”, “Kai-seng”, “Kaijo”, “Kaijō”, “Kaisong”, “Kaizyō”, “Kėsonas”, “Kesonga”, “KP-KAE”, “Region Industrial Kaesong”, “Región Industrial Kaesong”, “Shōto”, “Songak”, “Songdo”, “Ville spécial de Kaesŏng”, “كايسونج”, “แกซอง”, “แคซอง”, “เมืองซองโด”, “개경”, “개성군”, “개성부”, “개성직할시”, “개성특별시”, “경기도 개성군”, “경기도 개성부”, “경기도 개성시”, “송도”, “송악”, “冬比忽城”, “开京”, “松岳”, “松岳郡”, “松都”, “板門郡”, “開京”, “開城府”, “開城直轄市”, and “高丽王京”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kaesong Station and Sungyang Seowon.

Railway station
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Kaesŏng station is a railway station located in Kaesŏng, . It is located on the P'yŏngbu Line, which was formed from part of the Kyŏngŭi Line to accommodate the shift of the capital from to ; though this line physically connects P'yŏngyang to via Dorasan, in operational reality trains terminate here due to the .

Archaeological site
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Sungyang Hall is a fourteenth-century Confucian academy located on the side of Mt. Janam in Kaesong, . The hall was constructed in the late fourteenth century for the home of the famously loyal statesman and Confucian scholar Chŏng Mong-ju, whose 1392 assassination by the agents of the later Taejo of Joseon marked the end of the Koryo dynasty.

Stadium
The Kaesŏng Youth Stadium is a multi-use in Kaesŏng, . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 35,000 spectators and opened in 1988.

Kaesong

Latitude
37.9717° or 37° 58′ 18″ north
Longitude
126.5528° or 126° 33′ 10″ east
Population
308,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
United Nations Location Code
KP KSN
Open location code
8Q98XHC3+M4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5669592976
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1876373
Wiki­data ID
Q109079
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kaesong” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gaeseong”
  • Amharic: “ካዮንግ”
  • Arabic: “كايسونغ”
  • Armenian: “Կեսոն”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kaesong”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keson”
  • Basque: “Kaesong”
  • Belarusian: “Кэсон”
  • Bengali: “কায়সং”
  • Bengali: “কেসং”
  • Bulgarian: “Кесън”
  • Catalan: “Kaesong”
  • Cebuano: “Kaesŏng”
  • Chinese: “开城市”
  • Chinese: “开城特级市”
  • Chinese: “開城市”
  • Chinese: “開城特級市”
  • Croatian: “Kaesong”
  • Czech: “Kesong”
  • Danish: “Kaesong”
  • Danish: “Kaesŏng”
  • Dutch: “Kaesong”
  • Dutch: “Kaesŏng”
  • Esperanto: “Kaesongo”
  • Esperanto: “Kesongo”
  • Estonian: “Kaesŏng”
  • Finnish: “Gaeseong”
  • Finnish: “Kaesong”
  • Finnish: “Kaesŏng”
  • French: “Kaesong”
  • French: “Kaesŏng”
  • Georgian: “კესონი”
  • German: “Kaesŏng”
  • Greek: “Γκέσονγκ”
  • Greek: “Κέσονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “કૈસોંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kaesŏng”
  • Hausa: “Kaesong”
  • Hebrew: “קסונג”
  • Hindi: “कायसोंग”
  • Hindi: “केसोंग”
  • Hungarian: “Keszong”
  • Indonesian: “Kaesong”
  • Irish: “Kaesong”
  • Italian: “Kaesŏng”
  • Japanese: “開城市”
  • Japanese: “開城特別市”
  • Javanese: “Kaesong”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kaesong”
  • Kannada: “ಕೆಸಾಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Кэсон”
  • Khmer: “គែសង់”
  • Kirghiz: “Кэсон”
  • Korean: “개성”
  • Korean: “개성시”
  • Korean: “개성특급시”
  • Korean: “開城”
  • Lao: “ແກ້ວສົງ”
  • Latvian: “Kesona”
  • Literary Chinese: “開城市”
  • Lithuanian: “Kesongas”
  • Low German: “Kaesong”
  • Malay: “Kaesong”
  • Maltese: “Kaesong”
  • Maori: “Kaesong”
  • Marathi: “काईसोंग”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Kaesŏng”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaesong Te̍k-kip-chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kaesŏng Te̍k-pia̍t-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “კესონი”
  • Mongolian: “Кэсон”
  • Nepali: “केयसङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kaesŏng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaesong”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaesong”
  • Norwegian: “Kaesong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kaesong”
  • Oromo: “Kaesong”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਇਸੋਂਗ”
  • Persian: “کائسونگ”
  • Persian: “کایسونگ”
  • Persian: “که‌سونگ”
  • Polish: “Kaesŏng”
  • Portuguese: “Kaesong”
  • Pushto: “کایسونگ”
  • Romanian: “Kaesong”
  • Russian: “Кэсон”
  • Scots: “Kaesong”
  • Serbian: “Кесонг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaesong”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kaesŏng”
  • Sinhala: “කයිසොන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Käsong”
  • Slovenian: “Kaesong”
  • Somali: “Kaesong”
  • Spanish: “Kaesong”
  • Swahili: “Kaesong”
  • Swedish: “Kaesong”
  • Swedish: “Kaesŏng”
  • Tagalog: “Kaesong”
  • Tajik: “Кэсон”
  • Tamil: “கேசாங்”
  • Tatar: “Кесоң”
  • Tatar: “Кэсон”
  • Telugu: “కాసొంన్గ్”
  • Thai: “แคซ็อง”
  • Turkish: “Kaesong”
  • Ukrainian: “Кесон”
  • Urdu: “کائسونگ”
  • Urdu: “کایسونگ”
  • Uzbek: “Kaesong”
  • Uzbek: “Keson”
  • Vietnamese: “Kaesong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kaesong”
  • Western Armenian: “Կեսոն”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیسونگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “开城”
  • Wu Chinese: “开城市”
  • Yue Chinese: “開城”

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