Wonsan
Wonsan, previously known as Wonsanjin, is a port city and naval base located in Kangwon Province, North Korea, on the eastern side of the Korean Peninsula, on the Sea of Japan.
- 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”, “Ouen-san”, “Port Lasarew”, “Wensen”, “Weonsan”, “Wönsan”, “Yuenchan”, “Yuensan”, “Гензан”, “Генсан”, “Порт Лазарева”, “덕원”, “덕원부”, “원산부”, “ウォンサン”, “元山府”, and “徳源郡”
- Historically known as: “Gensan”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wonsan station and Songdowon.
Wonsan
- Categories: city of North Korea, port city, big city, and locality
- Location: Kangwŏn-do, Donghae Coast, North Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
39.1726° or 39° 10′ 21″ north
Longitude
127.4284° or 127° 25′ 42″ east
Population
329,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
Open location code
8QF95CFH+29
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Wonsan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Wonsan”
- Amharic: “ዎንሳን”
- Arabic: “ونسان”
- Arabic: “وونسان”
- Armenian: “Վոնսան”
- Azerbaijani: “Vonsan”
- Basque: “Wonsan”
- Belarusian: “Вансан”
- Bengali: “ওনসান”
- Bengali: “ওয়ানসান”
- Bulgarian: “Уънсан”
- Catalan: “Wonsan”
- Cebuano: “Wŏnsan”
- Chinese: “元山市”
- Czech: “Wonsan”
- Danish: “Wonsan”
- Dutch: “Wŏnsan”
- Esperanto: “Vonsano”
- Esperanto: “Wonsan”
- Estonian: “Wŏnsan”
- Finnish: “Wonsan”
- Finnish: “Wŏnsan”
- French: “Wonsan”
- German: “Wŏnsan”
- Greek: “Ουόνσαν”
- Gujarati: “વોનસન”
- Hausa: “Wonsan”
- Hebrew: “וונסן”
- Hindi: “वोनसान”
- Hungarian: “Vonszan”
- Indonesian: “Wonsan”
- Indonesian: “Wŏnsan”
- Irish: “Wonsan”
- Italian: “Wŏnsan”
- Japanese: “うぉんさんし”
- Japanese: “元山市”
- Javanese: “Wonsan”
- Kalaallisut: “Wonsan”
- Kannada: “ವೋನ್ಸಾನ್”
- Kazakh: “Вонсан”
- Kirghiz: “Вонсан”
- Korean: “원산”
- 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”
- Oromo: “Wonsan”
- Panjabi: “ਵਨਸਾਨ”
- Persian: “ونسان”
- Persian: “وونسان”
- Polish: “Wŏnsan”
- Portuguese: “Wonsan”
- Pushto: “ونسان”
- Romanian: “Wonsan”
- Russian: “Вонсан”
- Scots: “Wonsan”
- Serbian: “Вонсан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wŏnsan”
- Sinhala: “වොන්සන්”
- Slovak: “Wonsan”
- Slovenian: “Wonsan”
- Somali: “Wonsan”
- Spanish: “Wonsan”
- Spanish: “Wŏnsan”
- Swahili: “Wonsan”
- Swedish: “Wonsan”
- Tagalog: “Wonsan”
- Tajik: “Вонсан”
- Tamil: “ஒன்சன்”
- Tatar: “Вонсан”
- Telugu: “వన్సాన్”
- Thai: “ว็อนซัน”
- Turkish: “Wonsan”
- Ukrainian: “Вонсан”
- Urdu: “ونسان”
- Urdu: “وونسان”
- Uzbek: “Vonsan”
- Venetian: “Wŏnsan”
- Vietnamese: “Nguyên San”
- Vietnamese: “Wonsan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Wonsan”
- Welsh: “Wonsan”
- Western Panjabi: “ونسان”
- Yue Chinese: “元山”
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