Taebaek
Taebaek is a city in the southern part of Gangwon, with abundant tourism resources including Tae-baek Mountain. It's a highland city where two of South Korea's four major rivers, the Han River and the Nakdong River, originate.
- Type: City with 43,500 residents
- Description: city in Gangwon Province, South Korea
- Also known as: “Taebaek City” and “テベク市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mungok and Taebaek station.
Taebaek
- Categories: city of South Korea and locality
- Location: Gangwon, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.1638° or 37° 9′ 50″ north
Longitude
128.9857° or 128° 59′ 9″ east
Population
43,500
Elevation
691 metres (2,267 feet)
UN/LOCODE
KR TBK
Open location code
8Q9C5X7P+G7
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Taebaek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تيبيك”
- Bengali: “তায়েবেক”
- Catalan: “Taebaek”
- Cebuano: “T’aebaek”
- Chinese: “太白市”
- Czech: “Tchebek”
- Danish: “Taebaek”
- Dutch: “Taebaek”
- Estonian: “T’aebaek”
- Estonian: “Taebaek”
- Finnish: “Taebaek”
- French: “Taebaek”
- German: “Taebaek”
- Greek: “Τέμπεκ”
- Gujarati: “તૈબીક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Taebaek Sṳ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Thai-pha̍k-sṳ”
- Hindi: “टाईबैक”
- Hungarian: “Thebek”
- Indonesian: “Taebaek”
- Italian: “Taebaek”
- Japanese: “太白市”
- Kannada: “ಟೇಬೇಕ್”
- Korean: “T’aebaek”
- Korean: “Taebaek-si”
- Korean: “태백”
- Korean: “태백시”
- Latvian: “Thebeka”
- Lithuanian: “Tebekas”
- Lombard: “Taebaek”
- Malay: “Taebaek”
- Marathi: “तयेबाइक”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Taebaek Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Тэбэк”
- Northern Frisian: “Taebaek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Taebaek”
- Norwegian: “Taebaek”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Taebaek”
- Persian: “تاباک”
- Persian: “تهبک”
- Polish: “Taebaek”
- Portuguese: “Taebaek”
- Romanian: “Taebaek”
- Russian: “Тхэбэк”
- Silesian: “Taebaek”
- Sinhala: “ටයිබයික්”
- Slovak: “Tchäbäk”
- Spanish: “Taebaek”
- Swedish: “Taebaek”
- Tagalog: “Taebaek”
- Tamil: “டாபீக்”
- Telugu: “టాయెబాయిక్”
- Thai: “แทแบค”
- Turkish: “Taebaek”
- Ukrainian: “Тхебек”
- Urdu: “تائے بائیک”
- Vietnamese: “Taebaek”
- Waray (Philippines): “Taebaek”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Hwangji-dong and Hwajeon-dong.
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