Sokcho
Sokcho is a city in Gangwon, South Korea. It's quite a sleepy city and is known as a gateway to Seoraksan National Park, which is a 30-minute bus ride from the central hub.
- Type: City with 79,600 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Sogcho”, “Sokch’o-ri”, and “ソクチョ市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Seokbong Ceramic Art Museum and Sokcho Beach.
Seokbong Ceramic Art Museum
Arts center
The Seokbong Ceramic Museum is a ceramics museum in Sokcho, South Korea.
Sokcho
- Categories: city of South Korea and locality
- Location: Sokcho-si, Gangwon, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
38.207° or 38° 12′ 25″ north
Longitude
128.5913° or 128° 35′ 29″ east
Population
79,600
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
UN/LOCODE
KR SHO
Open location code
8QCC6H4R+QG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Sokcho” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سوكتشو”
- Arabic: “سوكوتشو”
- Armenian: “Սոկչո”
- Bashkir: “Сокчхо”
- Bengali: “সোকচো”
- Bulgarian: “Сокчхо”
- Catalan: “Sokcho”
- Cebuano: “Sokcho (kapital sa munisipyo sa Habagatang Korea)”
- Cebuano: “Sokcho-si”
- Chinese: “束草市”
- Czech: “Sokčcho”
- Danish: “Sokcho”
- Dutch: “Sokcho”
- Esperanto: “Sokĉo”
- Estonian: “Sokch’o”
- Estonian: “Sokcho”
- Finnish: “Sokcho”
- French: “Sokcho”
- German: “Sokcho”
- Greek: “Σόκτσο”
- Gujarati: “સોકો”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sokcho Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Suk-chhó-sṳ”
- Hebrew: “סוקצ’ו”
- Hindi: “सोक्चो”
- Hungarian: “Szokcsó”
- Indonesian: “Sokcho”
- Italian: “Sokcho”
- Japanese: “束草市”
- Kannada: “ಸೋಕ್ಚೊ”
- Korean: “Sokcho-si”
- Korean: “속초”
- Korean: “속초시”
- Latvian: “Sokčho”
- Lithuanian: “Sokčas”
- Lombard: “Sokcho”
- Malay: “Sokcho”
- Marathi: “सोको”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sokcho Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Сукчу”
- Northern Frisian: “Sokcho”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sokcho”
- Norwegian: “Sokcho”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sokcho”
- Persian: “سوکچو”
- Polish: “Sokcho”
- Romanian: “Sokcho”
- Russian: “Сокчхо”
- Sinhala: “සොකොචෝ”
- Spanish: “Sokcho”
- Swedish: “Sokcho”
- Tagalog: “Sokcho”
- Tamil: “சாக்சோ”
- Telugu: “సొకచో”
- Thai: “ซกโช”
- Turkish: “Sokcho”
- Ukrainian: “Сокчхо”
- Urdu: “سوکچو”
- Vietnamese: “Sokcho”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sokcho”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Jungang-dong and Dongmyeong-dong.
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Worth a closer look: Pyeongchang and Chuncheon.
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