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.
- Type: Locality
- Description: military settlement between North and South Korea
- Also known as: “Hanmonten”, “Joint Security Area”, “JSA”, “Kongdong kjŏngbi kujŏk”, “Pammunjeom”, “Panmundżon”, “Panmunjom”, “공동경비구역”, “널문리”, “パンムンジョム”, “パンムンジョン”, and “板門驛”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Joint Security Area and North Korea Peace Museum.
Joint Security Area
Military installation
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kijong-dong and Daeseong-dong.
Kijong-dong
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Daeseong-dong
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.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″ north
Longitude
126.677° or 126° 40′ 37″ east
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
Open location code
8Q98XM4G+8R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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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: “板门店”
- Czech: “Pchanmundžom”
- Danish: “Panmunjom”
- Dutch: “Panmunjeom”
- Dutch: “Panmunjom”
- Esperanto: “Panmunĝomo”
- Esperanto: “Panmunjom”
- Estonian: “Panmunjom”
- Finnish: “P’anmunjŏm”
- Finnish: “Panmunjom”
- French: “Panmunjeom”
- Georgian: “პანმუნჯომი”
- Georgian: “ფანმუნჯომი”
- German: “Panmunjeom”
- Greek: “Πάνμουντζομ”
- Hebrew: “פאנמונג’ום”
- Hungarian: “Panmindzson”
- Indonesian: “Panmunjom”
- Indonesian: “Panmunjon”
- Italian: “Panmunjeom”
- Japanese: “板門店”
- Khmer: “ផាន់មុនចំ”
- Korean: “판문점”
- Lithuanian: “Panmundžomas”
- Macedonian: “Панмунџом”
- Malay: “Panmunjeom”
- Malayalam: “പാൻമുൻജോം”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Panmunjom”
- Norwegian: “Panmunjom”
- Persian: “پانمونجوم”
- Polish: “Panmundżom”
- Portuguese: “Panmunjeom”
- Portuguese: “Panmunjon”
- Russian: “Пханмунджом”
- Serbo-Croatian: “P’anmunjŏm”
- Spanish: “Panmunjom”
- Swedish: “Panmunjeom”
- Swedish: “Panmunjom”
- Thai: “พันมุนจ็อม”
- Turkish: “Panmunjom”
- Ukrainian: “Пханмунджом”
- Urdu: “پانمونجوم”
- Vietnamese: “Bàn Môn Điếm”
- Yue Chinese: “板門店”
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