Pyeongtaek

Pyeongtaek is a city in Gyeonggi-do, , known for its strategic location as a major transportation hub and its proximity to U.S. military bases such as Camp Humphreys.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
  • Type: City with 489,000 residents
  • Description: city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
  • Also known as: “Chinwi-gun”, “Heitaku-gun”, “Heitaku-yū”, “P’yŏngt’aeg-ŭp”, “P’yŏngt’aek”, “P’yongt’aek-gun”, “P’yŏngt’aeng-ŭp”, “Pchjongtchäk-si”, “Pyeong Taeg”, “Pyeongtaeg gun”, “Pyeongtaek City”, “Pyeongtaek gun”, “Pyeongtaek-si”, “Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi”, “Pyeongtaek, South Korea”, “Shini-gun”, and “פיונגטק”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Pyeongtaek station and Pyeongtaek Fire Station.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is the main train station serving the city of Pyeongtaek, .

Pyeongtaek

Latitude
36.9925° or 36° 59′ 33″ north
Longitude
127.1127° or 127° 6′ 46″ east
Population
489,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
8Q89X4R7+X3
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Pyeongtaek” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيونجتايك”
  • Armenian: “Պիոնթեք”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pyontek”
  • Basque: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Belarusian: “Пхёнтхэк”
  • Bengali: “পিয়ংথেক”
  • Bulgarian: “Пйеонгтаек”
  • Catalan: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Cebuano: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Chinese: “平泽市”
  • Chinese: “平澤市”
  • Czech: “Pchjongtchek”
  • Danish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Dutch: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Esperanto: “Pjongtek”
  • Finnish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • French: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Georgian: “პიონტეკი”
  • Georgian: “ფიონტეკი”
  • German: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Greek: “Πιόνγκτεκ”
  • Gujarati: “પાયોંગટેક”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phìn-tshe̍t-sṳ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pyeongtaek Sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “פיונגטהאק”
  • Hindi: “पाइयॉन्गटेक”
  • Hungarian: “Phjongthek”
  • Indonesian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Irish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Italian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Japanese: “ぴょんてくし”
  • Japanese: “平沢市”
  • Kannada: “ಪೈಯೋಂಗ್ಟೆಕ್”
  • Korean: “P’yŏngt’aek-kun”
  • Korean: “Pyeongtaek-si”
  • Korean: “평택”
  • Korean: “평택시”
  • Latvian: “Pjeongtaeka”
  • Lithuanian: “Pjeongtaekas”
  • Malay: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Marathi: “पायॉन्ग्टेक”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pyeongtaek Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Пёнтэк хот”
  • Mongolian: “Пёнтэк”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Norwegian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pyeongtaek”
  • Persian: “پیونگتائک”
  • Persian: “پیونگ‌تک”
  • Polish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Portuguese: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Romanian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Russian: “Пхёнтхэк”
  • Scots: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Sinhala: “පයෝන්ග්ටයික්”
  • Slovak: “Pchjongtchäk”
  • Slovenian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Spanish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Sundanese: “Pyeongtaék-si”
  • Swedish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Tagalog: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Tamil: “யாங்டாக்”
  • Tatar: “Пйоңтек”
  • Telugu: “పాఏఒంగటెక్”
  • Thai: “พย็องแท็ก”
  • Turkish: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Ukrainian: “Пгьонтхек”
  • Ukrainian: “Пхьонтек”
  • Urdu: “پیونگ تائیک”
  • Urdu: “پیونگتائیک”
  • Venetian: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Vietnamese: “Pyeongtaek”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pyeongtaek”
  • Yue Chinese: “平泽”
  • Yue Chinese: “平澤”

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