Suncheon
Suncheon is in South Jeolla 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 Gwangju.
- Type: City with 281,000 residents
- Description: city in South Korea
- Also known as: “Junten” and “Sunchun”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Suncheon station and Suncheon Police Station.
Suncheon Bay National Garden
Garden
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sangsa-myeon and Haeryong-myeon.
Suncheon
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: South Jeolla, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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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
UN/LOCODE
KR SYS
Open location code
8Q69XF2P+6W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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: “順天市”
- Czech: “Sunčchon”
- Danish: “Suncheon”
- Dutch: “Suncheon”
- Esperanto: “Sunĉon”
- Finnish: “Suncheon”
- French: “Suncheon”
- Georgian: “სუნჩონი”
- 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”
- 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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