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Suncheon

Suncheon is in province on the south coast of the Korean Peninsula. Suncheon is a middle-sized town of 280,000 people near the sea, and is an important center of industry and agriculture. It is about 1 hour from the major city of .
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  • Type: City with 281,000 residents
  • Description: city in South Korea
  • Also known as: “Junten” and “Sunchun”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Suncheon station and Suncheon Police Station.

Railway station
Photo: G43, CC BY 3.0.
is a railway station in . It is on the Gyeongjeon Line and the Jeolla Line.

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

Garden
Photo: Donghwan Seong, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in Suncheon in , South Korea. The area of the garden is 1.12 km² plus 28 km² of Suncheon Bay.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sangsa-myeon and Haeryong-myeon.

Town
, also called Sangsa Township or Sangsa for short, is a myeon in Suncheon, a city in the , . It is located in the south-central part of the city with a total area of 60.31 square kilometres, 6.7% of a total area of Suncheon City.

Town
, also called Haeryong Township, or Haeryong for short, is a myeon in Suncheon, a city in , . The township is located in the south-eastern part of the city with a total area of 49.93 square kilometres.

Suncheon

Latitude
34.9505° or 34° 57′ 2″ north
Longitude
127.4873° or 127° 29′ 14″ east
Population
281,000
Elevation
19 metres (62 feet)
IATA airport code
SYS
United Nations Location Code
KR SYS
Open location code
8Q69XF2P+6W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 358015319
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1835648
Wiki­data ID
Q42112
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Suncheon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سون تشون”
  • Armenian: “Սունչոն”
  • Basque: “Suncheon”
  • Bengali: “সানচিওন”
  • Catalan: “Suncheon”
  • Cebuano: “Suncheon”
  • Chinese: “Suncheon Chhī”
  • Chinese: “順天市”
  • Czech: “Sunčchon”
  • Danish: “Suncheon”
  • Dutch: “Suncheon”
  • Esperanto: “Sunĉon”
  • Finnish: “Suncheon”
  • French: “Suncheon”
  • Georgian: “სუნჩონი”
  • German: “Suncheon-si”
  • German: “Suncheon”
  • Greek: “Σούντσον”
  • Gujarati: “સનચેન”
  • Hebrew: “סונצ’און”
  • Hindi: “सुनचेओं”
  • Hungarian: “Szuncshon”
  • Indonesian: “Suncheon”
  • Irish: “Suncheon”
  • Italian: “Suncheon”
  • Japanese: “スンチョンし”
  • Japanese: “順天市”
  • Kannada: “ಸುನ್ಚೆಯಾನ್”
  • Korean: “Sunch’ŏn”
  • Korean: “Suncheon-si”
  • Korean: “순천”
  • Korean: “순천시”
  • Latvian: “Sunčhona”
  • Lithuanian: “Sundžonas”
  • Lombard: “Suncheon, Jeollanam-do”
  • Malay: “Suncheon”
  • Marathi: “सनचेयन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Suncheon Chhī”
  • Mongolian: “Сүньчонь”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Suncheon”
  • Norwegian: “Suncheon”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Suncheon”
  • Persian: “سانچئونگ، جئولانام-دو”
  • Persian: “سونچون”
  • Polish: “Suncheon”
  • Portuguese: “Suncheon”
  • Romanian: “Suncheon”
  • Russian: “Сунчхон”
  • Sinhala: “සන්චියෝන්”
  • Slovak: “Sunčchon”
  • Slovenian: “Sunčeon”
  • Slovenian: “Suncheon”
  • Spanish: “Suncheon”
  • Swedish: “Suncheon”
  • Tagalog: “Suncheon”
  • Tamil: “சூன்செயான்”
  • Telugu: “సుంచెయోన్”
  • Thai: “ซุนชอน”
  • Thai: “ซุนช็อน”
  • Turkish: “Suncheon”
  • Ukrainian: “Сунчхон”
  • Urdu: “سنچیون، جیولانام-دو”
  • Venetian: “Suncheon”
  • Vietnamese: “Suncheon”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suncheon, Jeollanam-do”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Suncheon”
  • Yue Chinese: “順天市”

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