Namdaemun
The Kaesong Namdaemun is the south gate of the old walled city of Kaesong, North Korea. Constructed between 1391 and 1393, it is the only one of the original seven citadel gates to survive mostly intact into the present.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Monument
- Description: city gate in Kaesong, North Korea
- Also known as: “Kaesong Namdaemun”, “Namdae Gate”, and “South Gate”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sungyang Sowon and Kaesong station.
Sungyang Sowon
Archaeological site
Photo: Photlas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sungyang Hall is a fourteenth-century Confucian academy located on the side of Mt. Janam in Kaesong, North Korea. The hall was constructed in the late fourteenth century for the home of the famously loyal statesman and Confucian scholar Chŏng Mong-ju, whose 1392 assassination by the agents of the later Taejo of Joseon marked the end of the Koryo dynasty. Sungyang Sowon is situated 520 metres northeast of Namdaemun.
Kaesong station
Railway station
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Kaesŏng station is a railway station located in Kaesŏng, North Hwanghae province, North Korea. It is on located on the P'yŏngbu Line, which was formed from part of the Kyŏngŭi Line to accommodate the shift of the capital from Seoul to P'yŏngyang; though this line physically connects P'yŏngyang to Pusan via Dorasan, in operational reality trains terminate here due to the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Kaesong station is situated 1¼ km west of Namdaemun.
Kaesong Youth Stadium
Stadium
The Kaesŏng Youth Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kaesŏng, North Korea. It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 35,000 spectators and opened in 1988. Kaesong Youth Stadium is situated 1 km north of Namdaemun.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kijong-dong.
Kijong-dong
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is reportedly a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri, Panmun-guyok, Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Kijong-dong is situated 9 km east of Namdaemun.
Namdaemun
- Categories: city gate and historic site
- Location: Kaesong, Hwanghae, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.97191° or 37° 58′ 19″ northLongitude
126.55646° or 126° 33′ 23″ eastOpen location code
8Q98XHC4+QHOpenStreetMap ID
way 140485611OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q6961477
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Namdaemun” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “南大門”
- Chinese: “南大门”
- Chinese: “開城南大門”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نامدايمون”
- French: “grande porte du sud”
- French: “Namdaemun”
- German: “Namdaemun”
- Japanese: “南大門”
- Japanese: “開城南大門”
- Korean: “개성 남대문”
- Vietnamese: “Namdaemun (Kaesong)”
- Vietnamese: “Namdaemun”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Namdaemun”. Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0.