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Ulsan

Ulsan is a city in . It is the capital of the Ulsan Metropolitan District. While Ulsan is not listed in many tourist guides, it is the gateway to the Yeongnam Alps, considered to be one of the most beautiful national parks in South Korea.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ulsan Japanese Castle Ruins and Ulsannongsusanmul Wholesale Market.

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Ulsan Castle is a Japanese style castle in Ulsan, which was constructed during the Japanese invasions of Korea by Katō Kiyomasa's army. Today, Ulsan Castle is almost ruined by the city planning of Ulsan.

Marketplace
Ulsan Wholesale Agricultural and Fish Market is a wholesale market in , South Korea. The market comprises two structures, a covered area where agricultural products are sold, and a building that houses the fish market and several restaurants that prepare the fish after they are purchased.

Park
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is an next to in , , Ulsan, . The park was previously named Sunam Dam Park because of the large C-shaped dammed lake in the center of the park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Samsan-dong and Dal-dong.

Quarter
is a dong, or neighborhood, of in Ulsan, . Samsan literally translates as "three mountains". It is Ulsan's downtown area.

Quarter
is a dong, or neighborhood, of , South Korea.

Quarter
is a dong, or neighborhood, of in Ulsan, .

Ulsan

Latitude
35.5392° or 35° 32′ 21″ north
Longitude
129.3119° or 129° 18′ 43″ east
Population
1,170,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
USN
United Nations Location Code
KR USN
Open location code
8Q7FG8Q6+MQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6612437350
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1833747
Wiki­data ID
Q41278
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Ulsan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Ulsan”
  • Afrikaans: “Ulsan”
  • Arabic: “ألسان (مدينة حاضرة)”
  • Arabic: “ألسان”
  • Arabic: “أولسان (مدينة)”
  • Arabic: “أولسان”
  • Arabic: “اولسان”
  • Armenian: “Ուլսան”
  • Asturian: “Ulsan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ulsan”
  • Balinese: “Ulsan”
  • Basque: “Ulsan”
  • Belarusian: “Ульсан”
  • Bengali: “উলসান মেট্রোপলিটান সিটি”
  • Bengali: “উলসান”
  • Bislama: “Ulsan”
  • Bulgarian: “Улсан”
  • Burmese: “အူလ်ဆန်မြို့”
  • Burmese: “အောလ်ဆန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ulsan”
  • Cebuano: “Ulsan”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئولسان”
  • Chechen: “Ульсан”
  • Chinese: “Ulsan Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Chinese: “蔚山”
  • Chinese: “蔚山广域市”
  • Chinese: “蔚山廣域市”
  • Chinese: “蔚山浦”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Ulsan”
  • Croatian: “Ulsan”
  • Czech: “Ulsan”
  • Danish: “Ulsan”
  • Dutch: “Ulsan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اولسان”
  • Esperanto: “Ulsan”
  • Esperanto: “Ulsano”
  • Estonian: “Ulsan”
  • Finnish: “Ulsan”
  • French: “Ulsan”
  • French: “Ville métropolitaine de Ulsan”
  • German: “Ulsan Gwangyeoksi”
  • German: “Ulsan”
  • Greek: “Ούλσαν”
  • Gujarati: “ઉલ્સન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Ulsan”
  • Hebrew: “אולסן”
  • Hindi: “उल्सान”
  • Hungarian: “Ulsan”
  • Hungarian: “Ulszan”
  • Iban: “Ulsan”
  • Icelandic: “Ulsan”
  • Ido: “Ulsan”
  • Indonesian: “Ulsan”
  • Interlingue: “Ulsan”
  • Irish: “Ulsan”
  • Italian: “Ulsan”
  • Japanese: “蔚山広域市”
  • Kalaallisut: “Ulsan”
  • Kannada: “ಉಲ್ಸಾನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Ulsan”
  • Kazakh: “Ульсан”
  • Khmer: “អ៊ុលសាន”
  • Korean: “울산”
  • Korean: “울산광역시”
  • Korean: “울산시”
  • Latvian: “Ulsana”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Ulsan”
  • Literary Chinese: “蔚山”
  • Lithuanian: “Ulsanas”
  • Lombard: “Ulsan”
  • Malay: “Ulsan”
  • Maltese: “Ulsan”
  • Maori: “Ulsan”
  • Marathi: “उल्सान”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ulsan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ulsan Kóng-he̍k-chhī”
  • Mingrelian: “ულსანი”
  • Mongolian: “Үлсан”
  • Northern Frisian: “Ulsan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ulsan”
  • Norwegian: “Ulsan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ulsan”
  • Ossetian: “Ульсан”
  • Persian: “اولسان”
  • Polish: “Ulsan”
  • Portuguese: “Ulsan”
  • Quechua: “Ulsan”
  • Romanian: “Ulsan”
  • Russian: “Ульсан”
  • Scots: “Ulsan”
  • Serbian: “Улсан”
  • Silesian: “Ulsan”
  • Sinhala: “අල්සාන්”
  • Sinhala: “උල්සාන්”
  • Slovenian: “Ulsan”
  • Spanish: “Ulsan”
  • Swahili: “Ulsan”
  • Swedish: “Ulsan”
  • Tagalog: “Ulsan”
  • Tamil: “உள்சன்”
  • Tatar: “Ульсан”
  • Telugu: “ఉల్సాన్”
  • Thai: “อุลซัน”
  • Tok Pisin: “Ulsan”
  • Turkish: “Ulsan”
  • Ukrainian: “Ульсан”
  • Urdu: “السان”
  • Uzbek: “Ulsan”
  • Venetian: “Ulsan”
  • Vietnamese: “Ulsan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ulsan”
  • Western Panjabi: “السان”
  • Wu Chinese: “蔚山广域市”
  • Yue Chinese: “蔚山”

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