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Sobaeksan Observatory

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  • Type: Building
  • Description: location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events
  • Also known as: “observatories”, “observatory”, and “Observatory”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Punggi-eup and Sunheung-myeon.

Town
is a town in the outer regions of Yeongju City, Gyeongsangbuk-do, . It has a population of about 16,000. A portion of and the Memorial Park for the Korea Liberation Corps are located in . is situated 7 km southeast of Sobaeksan Observatory.

Town
Sunheung is a township administered as part of the municipality of in North Gyeongsang, . The present local government administers an area of 54.35 square kilometers. is situated 9 km east of Sobaeksan Observatory.

Photo: mhambleton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, formerly romanized as Tanyang, is a resort town in , . is the home of the mountain life where the Namhangang River flows and Sobaeksan Mountain stands like a folding screen.

Sobaeksan Observatory

Latitude
36.93446° or 36° 56′ 4″ north
Longitude
128.4569° or 128° 27′ 25″ east
Open location code
8Q8CWFM4+QQ
Open­Street­Map ID
way 786403435
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q62832
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Sobaeksan Observatory” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “sterrewag”
  • Albanian: “Observatori”
  • Arabic: “مرصد”
  • Armenian: “աստղադիտարան”
  • Armenian: “Աստղադիտարան”
  • Asturian: “observatoriu”
  • Asturian: “Observatoriu”
  • Azerbaijani: “rəsədxana”
  • Bashkir: “обсерватория”
  • Bashkir: “Обсерватория”
  • Basque: “behatoki”
  • Basque: “Behatoki”
  • Belarusian: “абсерваторыя”
  • Belarusian: “Абсерваторыя”
  • Belarusian: “абсэрваторыя”
  • Belarusian: “Абсэрваторыя”
  • Bengali: “মানমন্দির”
  • Bosnian: “opservatorija”
  • Breton: “arsellva”
  • Bulgarian: “астрономическа обсерватория”
  • Bulgarian: “обсерватории”
  • Bulgarian: “обсерватория”
  • Bulgarian: “Обсерватория”
  • Catalan: “observatori”
  • Catalan: “Observatori”
  • Chinese: “观测台”
  • Chinese: “观测站”
  • Chinese: “觀測台”
  • Chinese: “觀測站”
  • Chinese: “觀測臺”
  • Chinese: “觀象臺”
  • Cornish: “mirji”
  • Croatian: “observatorij”
  • Croatian: “opservatorij”
  • Croatian: “Opservatorij”
  • Czech: “observatoř”
  • Czech: “Observatoř”
  • Danish: “Astronomisk observatorium”
  • Danish: “Astronomiske observatorier”
  • Danish: “Observatorier”
  • Danish: “Observatoriet”
  • Danish: “observatorium”
  • Danish: “Observatorium”
  • Danish: “Rumobservatorium”
  • Danish: “Solobservatorium”
  • Dimli (individual language): “banê çımnayışi”
  • Dutch: “observatoire”
  • Dutch: “observatorium”
  • Dutch: “publiekssterrenwacht”
  • Dutch: “sterrenwacht”
  • Dutch: “Sterrenwacht”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد فلكى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مرصد”
  • Esperanto: “observatorio”
  • Esperanto: “Observatorio”
  • Esperanto: “stelobservejo”
  • Estonian: “Astronoomiaobservatoorium”
  • Estonian: “observatoorium”
  • Estonian: “Observatoorium”
  • Finnish: “observatorio”
  • Finnish: “Observatorio”
  • Finnish: “observatory”
  • Finnish: “tähtitorni”
  • French: “observatoire”
  • French: “Observatoire”
  • Galician: “observatorio”
  • Galician: “Observatorio”
  • Georgian: “ობსერვატორია”
  • German: “Observatorium”
  • German: “Sternwarte”
  • Greek: “αστεροσκοπείο”
  • Gujarati: “દૂરબીનશાળા”
  • Gujarati: “વેધશાળા”
  • Haitian: “obsevatwa”
  • Haitian: “obsèvatwa”
  • Haitian: “Obsèvatwa”
  • Hebrew: “מיצפה”
  • Hebrew: “מצפה”
  • Hindi: “दूरबीनशाला”
  • Hindi: “वेधशाला”
  • Hungarian: “obszervatórium”
  • Hungarian: “Obszervatórium”
  • Ido: “observatorio”
  • Indonesian: “observatorium”
  • Indonesian: “Observatorium”
  • Irish: “faireachlann”
  • Italian: “osservatorio”
  • Japanese: “観測所”
  • Japanese: “観測施設”
  • Javanese: “observatorium”
  • Javanese: “Observatorium”
  • Kannada: “ವೇಧಶಾಲೆ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “observatoriya”
  • Kazakh: “обсерватория”
  • Kazakh: “Обсерватория”
  • Kirghiz: “обсерватория”
  • Kirghiz: “Обсерватория”
  • Korean: “관측소”
  • Kurdish: “çavdêrîxane”
  • Kurdish: “Çavdêrîxane”
  • Latin: “Observatorium”
  • Latin: “Specula astronomica”
  • Latvian: “observatorija”
  • Latvian: “Observatorija”
  • Lithuanian: “astronomijos observatorija”
  • Lithuanian: “astronominė observatorija”
  • Lithuanian: “observatorija”
  • Lithuanian: “Observatorija”
  • Luxembourgish: “Observatoire”
  • Macedonian: “астрономска опсерваторија”
  • Macedonian: “набљудувачница”
  • Macedonian: “опсерваторија”
  • Macedonian: “Опсерваторија”
  • Malay: “balai cerap”
  • Malay: “Balai cerap”
  • Malay: “بالاي چرڤ”
  • Malayalam: “ഒബസെർവേറ്ററി”
  • Malayalam: “ഒബ്സെർവേറ്ററി”
  • Malayalam: “വാനനിലയം”
  • Malayalam: “വാനനിലയങ്ങൾ”
  • Marathi: “वेधशाळा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “observatorium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “observatorium”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Observatorium”
  • Norwegian: “Observatorium”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “observatòri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Observatòri”
  • Ossetian: “обсерватори”
  • Persian: “رصد خانه”
  • Persian: “رصدخانه”
  • Persian: “نپاهشگاه”
  • Polish: “obserwatorium”
  • Polish: “Obserwatorium”
  • Portuguese: “observatório”
  • Portuguese: “Observatório”
  • Romanian: “observator astronomic”
  • Russian: “обсерватория”
  • Russian: “Обсерватория”
  • Scots: “observatory”
  • Serbian: “обсерваторија”
  • Serbian: “опсерваторија”
  • Serbian: “Опсерваторија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “opservatorij”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opservatorij”
  • Sicilian: “ossirvatoriu”
  • Slovak: “observatórium”
  • Slovak: “Observatórium”
  • Slovenian: “observatorij”
  • Slovenian: “Observatorij”
  • Slovenian: “opazovalnica”
  • Spanish: “observatorio astronómico”
  • Spanish: “observatorio”
  • Spanish: “Observatorio”
  • Spanish: “observatorios astronómicos”
  • Swedish: “observatorier”
  • Swedish: “observatorium”
  • Swedish: “Observatorium”
  • Tagalog: “obserbatoryo”
  • Tagalog: “Obserbatoryo”
  • Tajik: “обсерватория”
  • Tajik: “расадхона”
  • Tamil: “நோக்காய்வகம்”
  • Tatar: “обсерватория”
  • Tatar: “Обсерватория”
  • Telugu: “ఖగోళ వేధశాల”
  • Thai: “หอดูดาว”
  • Turkish: “gözlemevi”
  • Turkish: “Gözlemevi”
  • Turkish: “rasathane”
  • Ukrainian: “астрономічна обсерваторія”
  • Ukrainian: “обсерваторії і інститути астрономічні”
  • Ukrainian: “обсерваторія”
  • Ukrainian: “Обсерваторія”
  • Urdu: “رصد گاہ”
  • Urdu: “رصدگاہ”
  • Uzbek: “rasadxona”
  • Uzbek: “Rasadxona”
  • Venetian: “oservatòrio”
  • Vietnamese: “đài thiên văn”
  • Vietnamese: “Đài thiên văn”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Obserbatoryo”
  • Waray (Philippines): “observatoryo”
  • Welsh: “arsyllfa”
  • Western Armenian: “աստղադիտարան”
  • Western Armenian: “Աստղադիտարան”
  • Western Panjabi: “رصد گاہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “观测台”
  • Yiddish: “אבסערוואטאריע”
  • Yue Chinese: “觀象臺”

Notable Places Nearby

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