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Sejong City

Sejong is 's central administrative capital city. It is a planned new city in the center of Chungcheong Province, established for the purpose of dispersing government agencies and developing the central region.
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  • Type: City with 351,000 residents
  • Description: Special Autonomous city in South Korea
  • Also known as: “Sejong”, “Sejong smart city”, “Sejong Special Autonomous City”, and “Sejong Special Self-Governing City”
  • Historically known as: “Yeongi”
  • Neighbors: , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sejong National Arboretum.

Park
Photo: 파란색 하늘, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a park.

Sejong City

Latitude
36.48° or 36° 28′ 48″ north
Longitude
127.289° or 127° 17′ 20″ east
Population
351,000
Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)
Open location code
8Q89F7HQ+XH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358896776
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
11523293
Wiki­data ID
Q20929
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sejong City” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sejong”
  • Arabic: “سيجونغ سيتي”
  • Arabic: “سيجونغ”
  • Arabic: “مدينة سيونغ”
  • Armenian: “Սեջոնգ”
  • Balinese: “Kota Séjong”
  • Basque: “Sejong”
  • Belarusian: “Сэджон”
  • Bengali: “সেজং শহর”
  • Bengali: “সেজোং”
  • Bislama: “Sejong”
  • Burmese: “ဆဲဂျွံမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Secheong”
  • Cebuano: “Sejong-si”
  • Chinese: “Sejong Te̍k-pia̍t Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Chinese: “世宗”
  • Chinese: “世宗市”
  • Chinese: “世宗特別自治市”
  • Chinese: “世宗特别自治市”
  • Czech: “Sedžong”
  • Danish: “Sejong City”
  • Danish: “Sejong”
  • Dutch: “Sejong”
  • Esperanto: “Seĝon”
  • Estonian: “Sejong”
  • Finnish: “Sejong-si”
  • Finnish: “Sejong”
  • French: “Sejong”
  • German: “Sejong”
  • Greek: “Πόλη Σέτζονγκ”
  • Greek: “Σέτζονγκ”
  • Gujarati: “સિઝોંગ શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “સેજોંગ શહેર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Sejong Thi̍t-phe̍t Chhṳ-chhṳ-sṳ”
  • Hebrew: “סג’ונג”
  • Hindi: “सेजोंग सिटी”
  • Hindi: “सेयोंग शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Szedzsong (település)”
  • Hungarian: “Szedzsong”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Sejong”
  • Irish: “Cathair Sejong”
  • Italian: “Sejong”
  • Japanese: “世宗”
  • Japanese: “世宗市”
  • Japanese: “世宗特別自治市”
  • Kannada: “ಸೆಹೋಂಗ್ ನಗರ”
  • Kazakh: “Седжоң”
  • Khmer: “ទីក្រុងសេចុង”
  • Kirghiz: “Седжоң (шаар)”
  • Korean: “세종”
  • Korean: “세종시”
  • Korean: “세종특별자치시”
  • Korean: “世宗”
  • Latvian: “Sedžona”
  • Literary Chinese: “世宗特別自治市”
  • Lithuanian: “Sedžongas”
  • Malay: “Sejong”
  • Marathi: “सेजाँग सिटी”
  • Marathi: “सेजोन्ग शहर”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sié-cŭng Dĕk-biék Cê̤ṳ-dé-chê”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sié-cŭng Dĕk-biék Cê̤ṳ-dê-chê”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sejong Te̍k-pia̍t Chū-tī-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “სეჯონი (ნოღა)”
  • Mingrelian: “სეჯონი”
  • Mongolian: “Сэжун хот”
  • Mongolian: “Сэжун”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sejong by”
  • Norwegian: “Sejong by”
  • Ossetian: “Седжон (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Седжон”
  • Persian: “سجونگ”
  • Polish: “Sedżong”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade de Sejong”
  • Portuguese: “Sejong”
  • Romanian: “Sejong-si”
  • Russian: “Седжон”
  • Russian: “Специальный автономный город Сечжон”
  • Scots: “Sejong Ceety”
  • Serbian: “Sedžong”
  • Serbian: “Сеџонг”
  • Sinhala: “සිජෝන්ග් නගරය”
  • Sinhala: “සේජෝන්ග් නගරය”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Sejong”
  • Spanish: “Sejong”
  • Swedish: “Sejong City”
  • Swedish: “Sejong”
  • Tamil: “சீஜொங் நகரம்”
  • Tamil: “சேஜோங் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Сеҗоң”
  • Telugu: “సెజాంగ్ కౌంటీ”
  • Telugu: “సెజాంగ్ నగరం”
  • Thai: “เซจง”
  • Thai: “นครเซจง”
  • Thai: “นครปกครองตนเองพิเศษเซจง”
  • Thai: “เมืองเซจง”
  • Tok Pisin: “Sejiong”
  • Turkish: “Sejong”
  • Ukrainian: “Седжон”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Sedźong”
  • Urdu: “سیجونگ شہر”
  • Venetian: “Sitàde Sejong”
  • Vietnamese: “Sejong”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Sejong”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Syudad han Sejong”
  • Yue Chinese: “世宗特別自治市”

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