Wonsan
Wonsan, previously known as Wonsanjin, is a port city and naval base located in Kangwon Province, North Korea, along the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula, on the Sea of Japan and the provincial capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 329,000 residents
- Description: port city and naval base located in Kangwŏn Province, North Korea
- Also known as: “Genzan”, “Genzan Hu”, “Onsan”, “Wensen”, “Wŏnsan”, “Yuenchan”, and “Yuensan”
- Historically known as: “Gensan”
Photo: stngiam, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Clay Gilliland, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Shih Tung Ngiam, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wonsan station and Songdowon.
Wonsan station
Railway station
Wŏnsan station is a railway station located in Yangji-dong, Wŏnsan city, Kangwŏn province, North Korea. It is on the Kangwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway. Locomotive and freight car maintenance facilities are located here.
Songdowon
Railway station
Songdongwŏn station is a railway station in greater Wŏnsan city, Kangwŏn province, North Korea, on the Songdongwŏn Line of the Korean State Railway. The station serves the Songdowon International Children's Camp.
Songdowon International Children’s Union Camp
Resort
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Songdowon International Children's Camp is a summer camp located in the Songdowon area of Wonsan, North Korea.
Wonsan
- Categories: city of North Korea, port city, big city, and locality
- Location: Kangwŏn-do, Donghae Coast, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.1726° or 39° 10′ 21″ northLongitude
127.4284° or 127° 25′ 42″ eastPopulation
329,000Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)Open location code
8QF95CFH+29OpenStreetMap ID
node 33259203OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1866923Wikidata ID
Q109374
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Wonsan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Wonsan”
- Arabic: “وونسان”
- Armenian: “Վոնսան”
- Azerbaijani: “Vonsan”
- Basque: “Wonsan”
- Belarusian: “Вансан”
- Bengali: “ওয়ানসান”
- Bulgarian: “Вонсан”
- Bulgarian: “Уънсан”
- Catalan: “Wonsan”
- Cebuano: “Wŏnsan”
- Chinese: “Wŏnsan Chhī”
- Chinese: “元山”
- Chinese: “元山市”
- Czech: “Wonsan”
- Danish: “Wonsan”
- Dutch: “Weonsan”
- Dutch: “Wonsan”
- Dutch: “Wŏnsan”
- Esperanto: “Vonsano”
- Esperanto: “Wonsan”
- Estonian: “Wonsan”
- Estonian: “Wŏnsan”
- Finnish: “Gensan”
- Finnish: “Wonsan”
- Finnish: “Wŏnsan”
- French: “Ouen-san”
- French: “Wonsan”
- French: “Wŏnsan”
- German: “Port Lasarew”
- German: “Weonsan”
- German: “Wonsan”
- German: “Wŏnsan”
- German: “Wönsan”
- Greek: “Ουόνσαν”
- Gujarati: “વોનસન”
- Hebrew: “וונסן”
- Hindi: “वोनसान”
- Hungarian: “Vonszan”
- Indonesian: “Wonsan”
- Indonesian: “Wŏnsan”
- Irish: “Wonsan”
- Italian: “Wŏnsan”
- Japanese: “ウォンサン”
- Japanese: “うぉんさんし”
- Japanese: “元山”
- Japanese: “元山市”
- Japanese: “元山府”
- Japanese: “徳源郡”
- Kalaallisut: “Wonsan”
- Kannada: “ವೋನ್ಸಾನ್”
- Korean: “덕원”
- Korean: “덕원부”
- Korean: “원산”
- Korean: “원산부”
- Korean: “원산시”
- Latvian: “Vonsana”
- Lithuanian: “Vonsanas”
- Low German: “Wonsan”
- Malay: “Wonsan”
- Maltese: “Wonsan”
- Maori: “Wonsan”
- Marathi: “वॉनसन”
- Mazanderani: “ونسان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wŏnsan Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Воньсань”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wonsan”
- Norwegian: “Wonsan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Wonsan”
- Persian: “ونسان”
- Persian: “وونسان”
- Polish: “Wonsan”
- Polish: “Wŏnsan”
- Portuguese: “Wonsan”
- Romanian: “Wonsan”
- Russian: “Вонсан”
- Russian: “Гензан”
- Russian: “Генсан”
- Russian: “Порт Лазарева”
- Scots: “Wonsan”
- Serbian: “Вонсан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wŏnsan”
- Sinhala: “වොන්සන්”
- Slovak: “Wonsan”
- Slovenian: “Vonsan”
- Slovenian: “Wonsan”
- Spanish: “Wonsan”
- Spanish: “Wŏnsan”
- Swahili: “Wonsan”
- Swedish: “Wonsan”
- Swedish: “Wŏnsan”
- Tagalog: “Wonsan”
- Tamil: “ஒன்சன்”
- Tatar: “Вонсан”
- Telugu: “వన్సాన్”
- Thai: “ว็อนซัน”
- Turkish: “Wonsan”
- Ukrainian: “Вонсан”
- Urdu: “وونسان”
- Uzbek: “Vonsan”
- Venetian: “Wŏnsan”
- Vietnamese: “Nguyên San”
- Vietnamese: “Wonsan”
- Vietnamese: “Wŏnsan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wonsan”
- Welsh: “Wonsan”
- Western Panjabi: “ونسان”
- Yue Chinese: “元山”
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