Kaesong
Kaesŏng is a city in North Korea, only 8 km from the DMZ with South Korea. Twelve historic monuments and sites in Kaesong were inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2013.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 308,000 residents
- Description: city in North Korea
- Also known as: “Gaegyeong”, “Gaeseong”, “Kaesŏng”, “Kai-seng”, “Kaisong”, “Kaizyō”, and “Shōto”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kaesong station and Sungyang Seowon.
Kaesong station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kaesŏng station is a railway station located in Kaesŏng, North Hwanghae province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngbu Line, which was formed from part of the Kyŏngŭi Line to accommodate the shift of the capital from Seoul to P'yŏngyang; though this line physically connects P'yŏngyang to Pusan via Dorasan, in operational reality trains terminate here due to the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Sungyang Seowon
Archaeological site
Photo: Photlas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sungyang Hall is a fourteenth-century Confucian academy located on the side of Mt. Janam in Kaesong, North Korea. 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.
Kaesong Youth Stadium
Stadium
The Kaesŏng Youth Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kaesŏng, North Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 35,000 spectators and opened in 1988.
Kaesong
- Categories: special-level city in North Korea and locality
- Location: Hwanghae, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9717° or 37° 58′ 18″ northLongitude
126.5528° or 126° 33′ 10″ eastPopulation
308,000Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
KP KSNOpen location code
8Q98XHC3+M4OpenStreetMap ID
node 5669592976OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Kaesong” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Gaeseong”
- Achinese: “Kaesong”
- Arabic: “كايسونج”
- Arabic: “كايسونغ”
- Armenian: “Կեսոն”
- Azerbaijani: “Keson”
- Basque: “Kaesong”
- Belarusian: “Кэсон”
- Bengali: “কেসং”
- Bulgarian: “Кесън”
- Catalan: “Kaesong”
- Cebuano: “Kaesŏng”
- Chinese: “Kaesŏng Te̍k-pia̍t-chhī”
- Chinese: “冬比忽城”
- Chinese: “开京”
- Chinese: “开城”
- Chinese: “开城市”
- Chinese: “开城特级市”
- Chinese: “松岳”
- Chinese: “松岳郡”
- Chinese: “松都”
- Chinese: “板門郡”
- Chinese: “開城”
- Chinese: “開城市”
- Chinese: “開城府”
- Chinese: “開城特級市”
- Chinese: “高丽王京”
- Croatian: “Kaesong”
- Czech: “Kesong”
- Danish: “Gaeseong”
- Danish: “Kaesong”
- Danish: “Kaesŏng”
- Dutch: “Kaesong”
- Dutch: “Kaesŏng”
- Esperanto: “Kaesongo”
- Esperanto: “Kesongo”
- Estonian: “Kaesong”
- Estonian: “Kaesŏng”
- Finnish: “Gaeseong”
- Finnish: “Kaesong”
- Finnish: “Kaesŏng”
- French: “Gaeseong”
- French: “Kaesong”
- French: “Kaesŏng”
- French: “Ville spécial de Kaesŏng”
- Georgian: “კესონი”
- German: “Gaegyeong”
- German: “Gaeseong”
- German: “Kaesŏng-si”
- German: “Kaesong”
- German: “Kaesŏng”
- German: “Kaijo”
- German: “Kaijō”
- German: “Käsong”
- German: “KP-KAE”
- Greek: “Γκέσονγκ”
- Greek: “Κέσονγκ”
- Gujarati: “કૈસોંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kaesŏng”
- Hebrew: “קסונג”
- Hindi: “कासोंग”
- Hungarian: “Keszong”
- Indonesian: “Kaesong”
- Irish: “Kaesong”
- Italian: “Kaesong”
- Italian: “Kaesŏng”
- Japanese: “開城”
- Japanese: “開城市”
- Japanese: “開城特別市”
- Japanese: “開城特級市”
- Japanese: “開城直轄市”
- Kalaallisut: “Kaesong”
- Kannada: “ಕೆಸಾಂಗ್”
- Khmer: “គែសង់”
- Korean: “개경”
- Korean: “개성”
- Korean: “개성군”
- Korean: “개성부”
- Korean: “개성시”
- Korean: “개성직할시”
- Korean: “개성특급시”
- Korean: “개성특별시”
- Korean: “경기도 개성군”
- Korean: “경기도 개성부”
- Korean: “경기도 개성시”
- Korean: “開城”
- Lao: “ແກ້ວສົງ”
- Latvian: “Kesona”
- Latvian: “Kesonga”
- Literary Chinese: “開城市”
- Lithuanian: “Kaesiongas”
- Lithuanian: “Kėsonas”
- Lithuanian: “Kesongas”
- Low German: “Kaesong”
- Malay: “Kaesong”
- Maltese: “Kaesong”
- Maori: “Kaesong”
- Marathi: “काईसोंग”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Kaesŏng”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kaesong Te̍k-kip-chhī”
- Mingrelian: “კესონი”
- Mongolian: “Кэсон”
- Nepali: “केयसङ”
- Northern Frisian: “Kaesŏng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kaesong”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaeseong”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gaesong”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaesong”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kaesŏng”
- Norwegian: “Kaesong”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kaesong”
- Persian: “کائسونگ”
- Persian: “کهسونگ”
- Polish: “Kaesong”
- Polish: “Kaesŏng”
- Polish: “Kesong”
- Portuguese: “Kaesong”
- Romanian: “Kaesong”
- Russian: “Кэсон”
- Scots: “Kaesong”
- Serbian: “Кесонг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gaegyeong”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaesong”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kaesŏng”
- Sinhala: “කයිසොන්ග්”
- Slovak: “Kägjong”
- Slovak: “Käsong”
- Slovak: “Songak”
- Slovak: “Songdo”
- Slovak: “개경”
- Slovak: “개성시”
- Slovak: “개성특급시”
- Slovak: “송도”
- Slovak: “송악”
- Slovak: “松岳”
- Slovak: “松都”
- Slovak: “開京”
- Slovak: “開城特級市”
- Spanish: “Gaeseong”
- Spanish: “Kaesong”
- Spanish: “Region Industrial Kaesong”
- Spanish: “Región Industrial Kaesong”
- Swahili: “Kaesong”
- Swedish: “Kaesong”
- Swedish: “Kaesŏng”
- Tagalog: “Kaesong”
- Tamil: “கேசாங்”
- Tatar: “Кесоң”
- Telugu: “కాసొంన్గ్”
- Thai: “แกซอง”
- Thai: “แคซอง”
- Thai: “แคซ็อง”
- Thai: “เมืองซองโด”
- Turkish: “Kaesong”
- Ukrainian: “Кесон”
- Urdu: “کائسونگ”
- 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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