North Gyeongsang
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Pohang

Pohang is a major industrial city on South Korea's east coast in . It is well-known for Jukdo Market, one of the most popular fresh fish markets in Korea.
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  • Type: City with 514,000 residents
  • Description: city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea
  • Also known as: “Geijitsu”, “Hoko”, “Hokō-dō”, “P’ohang”, “P’ohang-dong”, “Po-Hang”, and “Po’hang”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Pohangnambu Police Station and Pohang Stadium.

Police station
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Stadium
Pohang Sports Complex is a multi-use in Pohang, South Korea. The stadium was used by the Pohang Steelers until the opened in 1990. The capacity of the stadium is 22,934 spectators.

Pitch
Photo: Hyolee2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a baseball stadium in Pohang, . The stadium is currently being used as a second home of the KBO League team Samsung Lions.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yeonil-eup.

Town
Yeonil is a town, or eup in Nam-gu, Pohang, , . The township Yeonil-myeon had been upgraded to the town in 1980. Yeonil Town Office is located in Geojeong-ri.

Pohang

Latitude
36.0189° or 36° 1′ 8″ north
Longitude
129.3429° or 129° 20′ 35″ east
Population
514,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
IATA airport code
KPO
United Nations Location Code
KR KPO
Open location code
8Q8F289V+H5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358015241
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1839071
Wiki­data ID
Q42157
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pohang” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوهانغ”
  • Armenian: “Պոհանգ”
  • Asturian: “Pohang”
  • Basque: “Pohang”
  • Belarusian: “Пхахан”
  • Bengali: “পোহাং”
  • Catalan: “Pohang”
  • Cebuano: “Pohang-si”
  • Cebuano: “Pohang”
  • Chinese: “Pohang Chhī”
  • Chinese: “浦項”
  • Chinese: “浦項市”
  • Chinese: “浦项市”
  • Czech: “Pchohang”
  • Danish: “Pohang”
  • Dutch: “Pohang”
  • Esperanto: “Pohan”
  • Finnish: “Pohang”
  • French: “Pohang”
  • German: “Pohang”
  • Greek: “Πόχανγκ”
  • Gujarati: “પોહાંગ”
  • Hebrew: “פוהאנג”
  • Hindi: “पोहांग”
  • Indonesian: “Pohang”
  • Irish: “Pohang”
  • Italian: “Pohang”
  • Japanese: “浦項市”
  • Kannada: “ಪೊಹಾಂಗ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Pohang”
  • Korean: “Pohang-si”
  • Korean: “경북 포항”
  • Korean: “경북 포항시”
  • Korean: “경상북도 포항”
  • Korean: “경상북도 포항시”
  • Korean: “포항”
  • Korean: “포항시”
  • Latvian: “Phohana”
  • Lithuanian: “Pochangas”
  • Lithuanian: “Pohangas”
  • Lombard: “Pohang”
  • Malay: “Pohang”
  • Marathi: “पोहाँग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pohang Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Похан”
  • Mongolian: “Пухан”
  • Mongolian: “ᠫᠦ᠋ᠬᠠᠩ ᠬᠣᠲᠠ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pohang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pohang”
  • Norwegian: “Pohang”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pohang”
  • Ossetian: “Пхохан”
  • Persian: “پوهانگ”
  • Polish: “Pohang”
  • Portuguese: “Pohang”
  • Russian: “Пхохан”
  • Scots: “Pohang”
  • Sinhala: “පොහාන්ග්”
  • Spanish: “Pohang”
  • Swedish: “Pohang-si”
  • Swedish: “Pohang”
  • Tagalog: “Pohang”
  • Tamil: “போஹாங்”
  • Tatar: “Поһаң”
  • Telugu: “పోహాంగ్”
  • Thai: “โปฮัง”
  • Thai: “โพฮัง”
  • Turkish: “Pohang”
  • Ukrainian: “Пхохан”
  • Urdu: “پوہانگ”
  • Urdu: “پوہنگ”
  • Venetian: “Pohang”
  • Vietnamese: “Pohang”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pohang”
  • Yue Chinese: “浦項”

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