Panmunjeom
Panmunjeom, also P'anmunjŏm, is on the demarcation line between North and South Korea. It is a living relic of the Cold War era. It can only be visited on an organized tour.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Kok Leng Yeo, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Locality
- Description: military settlement between North and South Korea
- Also known as: “Panmunjom”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Joint Security Area and North Korea Peace Museum.
Joint Security Area
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Joint Security Area is the only portion of the Korean Demilitarized Zone where North and South Korean forces stand face-to-face. The JSA is used by the two Koreas for diplomatic engagements and, until March 1991, was also the site of military negotiations between North Korea and the United Nations Command.
North Korea Peace Museum
Museum
Photo: Bubbha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The North Korea Peace Museum is in the building constructed to house the signing of the Korean War Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953. It is located in the former village of Panmunjeom in North Hwanghae Province, North Korea.
Bridge of No Return
Bridge
Photo: Filzstift, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Located in the Joint Security Area, the so-called "Bridge of No Return" crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North Korea and South Korea.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kijong-dong and Daeseong-dong.
Kijong-dong
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri, Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Daeseong-dong
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Daeseong-dong is a village in South Korea close to the North Korean border. It lies within the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The village is about 1.6 kilometres south of the Bridge of No Return, and 12 km from the city of Kaesong, North Korea.
Panmunjeom
- Categories: military base, border checkpoint, convention center, and border city
- Location: Gunnae-myeon, Paju, Gyeonggi, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.9559° or 37° 57′ 21″ northLongitude
126.677° or 126° 40′ 37″ eastElevation
22 metres (72 feet)Open location code
8Q98XM4G+8ROpenStreetMap ID
node 5750036136OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Panmunjeom” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بانمنجوم”
- Azerbaijani: “Panmuncom”
- Basque: “Panmunjom”
- Belarusian: “Пханмунджом”
- Catalan: “Panmunjeom”
- Chinese: “板門店”
- Chinese: “板門驛”
- Chinese: “板门店”
- Czech: “Kongdong kjŏngbi kujŏk”
- Czech: “Pchanmundžom”
- Czech: “공동경비구역”
- Czech: “판문점”
- Danish: “Panmunjom”
- Dutch: “Panmunjeom”
- Dutch: “Panmunjom”
- Esperanto: “Panmunjom”
- Esperanto: “Panmunĵomo”
- Estonian: “Panmunjom”
- Finnish: “P’anmunjŏm”
- Finnish: “Panmunjom”
- Finnish: “Panmunjon”
- French: “Pammunjeom”
- French: “Panmunjeom”
- French: “Panmunjom”
- French: “Panmunjon”
- Georgian: “პანმუნჯომი”
- Georgian: “ფანმუნჯომი”
- German: “Hanmonten”
- German: “Joint Security Area”
- German: “JSA”
- German: “Panmunjeom”
- German: “Panmunjom”
- German: “Panmunjon”
- Greek: “Πάνμουντζομ”
- Hebrew: “פאנמונג’ום”
- Hungarian: “Panmindzson”
- Indonesian: “Panmunjom”
- Indonesian: “Panmunjon”
- Italian: “Panmunjeom”
- Japanese: “パンムンジョム”
- Japanese: “パンムンジョン”
- Japanese: “板門店”
- Khmer: “ផាន់មុនចំ”
- Korean: “널문리”
- Korean: “판문점”
- Lithuanian: “Panmundžomas”
- Macedonian: “Панмунџом”
- Malay: “Panmunjeom”
- Malayalam: “പാൻമുൻജോം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Panmunjeom”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Panmunjom”
- Norwegian: “Panmunjom”
- Persian: “پانمونجوم”
- Polish: “Panmundżom”
- Polish: “Panmundżon”
- Polish: “Panmunjeom”
- Polish: “Panmunjom”
- Portuguese: “Panmunjeom”
- Portuguese: “Panmunjon”
- Russian: “Пханмунджом”
- Serbo-Croatian: “P’anmunjŏm”
- Spanish: “Panmunjom”
- Swedish: “Panmunjeom”
- Swedish: “Panmunjom”
- Thai: “พันมุนจ็อม”
- Turkish: “Panmunjom”
- Ukrainian: “Пханмунджом”
- Vietnamese: “Bàn Môn Điếm”
- Vietnamese: “Panmunjeom”
- Yue Chinese: “板門店”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Panmunjeom”. Photo: Kok Leng Yeo, CC BY 2.0.