Songpa
Songpa and Gangdong are in the eastern part of Seoul, along the Han River. Quieter and more residential then its hectic neighbor, Gangnam, Songpa nonetheless offers a fair number of attractions.Photo: Stegano, Public domain.
- Type: Borough with 652,000 residents
- Description: one of the districts (gu) of Seoul, South Korea
- Also known as: “Songpa District” and “Songpa-gu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lotte World and Samjeondo Monument.
Lotte World
Theme park
Photo: SJ Yang, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lotte World or Lotte World Adventure is a theme park and major recreation complex in Seoul, South Korea. Opened in July 1989, Lotte World consists of a large indoor theme park, an outdoor amusement park called "Magic Island", shopping malls, a luxury hotel, an observation tower, a Korean folk museum, sports facilities and movie theaters.
Samjeondo Monument
Photo: Dalgial, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Samjeondo Monument is a monument marking the submission of the Korean Joseon dynasty to the Manchu-led Qing dynasty in 1636 after the latter's invasion of the former.
Songpa Naru Park
Park
Photo: Nesnad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Seokchon Lake Park in Songpa District, Seoul, South Korea includes Seokchon Lake and Lotte World's Magic Island. The lake's area is 217,850 m2 and its average depth is about 4.5 meters.
Songpa
- Categories: district of Seoul and locality
- Location: Seoul, Gyeonggi, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.5145° or 37° 30′ 52″ northLongitude
127.1058° or 127° 6′ 21″ eastPopulation
652,000Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)Open location code
8Q99G474+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 415154061OpenStreetMap feature
place=boroughGeoNames ID
8349536Wikidata ID
Q50415
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Satellite Map
Discover Songpa from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Belarusian to Yue Chinese—“Songpa” goes by many names.
- Belarusian: “Сонпхагу”
- Cebuano: “Songpa-gu”
- Chinese: “Songpa Khu”
- Chinese: “松坡区”
- Chinese: “松坡區”
- Chinese: “松坡區廳”
- Chinese: “鬆坡區廳”
- Dutch: “Songpa District”
- Esperanto: “Songpa-gu”
- Esperanto: “Songpa”
- Esperanto: “Sonpha-gu”
- Esperanto: “Sonpha-ku”
- Esperanto: “Sonpha”
- Estonian: “Songpa linnarajoon”
- Estonian: “Songpa ringkond”
- French: “Songpa-gu”
- German: “Songpa-gu”
- German: “Songpa”
- Greek: “Σόνγκπα-γκου”
- Hebrew: “סיאול/סונגפה-גאנגדונג”
- Hungarian: “Szongpha-ku”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Songpa”
- Indonesian: “Songpa-gu”
- Interlingue: “Songpa-gu”
- Italian: “Distretto di Songpa”
- Italian: “Songpa-gu”
- Japanese: “ソンパ区”
- Japanese: “松坡区”
- Korean: “서울 송파”
- Korean: “서울 송파구”
- Korean: “서울시 송파구”
- Korean: “서울특별시 송파구”
- Korean: “송파”
- Korean: “송파구”
- Malay: “Daerah Songpa”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Songpa Khu”
- Northern Frisian: “Songpa (Steedkreis)”
- Northern Frisian: “Songpa”
- Persian: “ناحیه سونگپا”
- Russian: “Сонпхагу”
- Scots: “Songpa-gu”
- Slovenian: “Songpa-gu”
- Slovenian: “Songpa”
- Spanish: “Songpa-gu”
- Spanish: “Songpa”
- Swedish: “Songpa-gu”
- Turkish: “Songpa-gu”
- Turkish: “Songpa”
- Ukrainian: “Сонгпа-Гу”
- Ukrainian: “Сонгпа”
- Urdu: “سونگپا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Songpa-gu”
- Yue Chinese: “松坡區”
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