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Yangyang

Yangyang is in . It is a name of a small town and of a bigger county of which it is the capital. It used to be an unpopular tourist destination compared to Sokcho and Gangneung, but it became famous for surfing and now attracts about 15.22 million tourists a year.
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  • Type: County with 27,300 residents
  • Description: administrative division of South Korea
  • Also known as: “Jang-jang”, “Jōyō”, “Yangyang County”, “Yangyang-gun Cheong”, and “Yŏngyang”

Yangyang

Latitude
38.0751° or 38° 4′ 30″ north
Longitude
128.6191° or 128° 37′ 9″ east
Population
27,300
Elevation
33 metres (108 feet)
IATA airport code
YNY
United Nations Location Code
KR YNY
Open location code
8QCC3JG9+2J
Open­Street­Map ID
node 415151865
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1832809
Wiki­data ID
Q50254
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Yangyang” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “محافظة يانغيانغ”
  • Catalan: “Yangyang”
  • Cebuano: “Yangyang-gun”
  • Chinese: “Yangyang Kūn”
  • Chinese: “襄阳郡”
  • Chinese: “襄陽郡”
  • Dutch: “Yangyang County”
  • Estonian: “Yangyangi maakond”
  • French: “district de Yangyang”
  • French: “District de Yangyang”
  • French: “Yangyang”
  • German: “Yangyang-gun”
  • German: “Yangyang”
  • Greek: “Γιάνγιανγκ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Siong-yòng-khiùn”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Yangyang Khiun”
  • Hungarian: “Jangjang megye”
  • Italian: “Contea di Yangyang”
  • Italian: “Yangyang”
  • Japanese: “襄陽郡”
  • Korean: “Yangyang-gun”
  • Korean: “양양”
  • Korean: “양양군”
  • Korean: “양양군청”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Yangyang Kūn”
  • Mongolian: “Ян-Ян-гүнь”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yangyang (Lunkreis)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Yangyang”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Yangyang”
  • Norwegian: “Yangyang”
  • Persian: “شهرستان یانگ‌یانگ”
  • Persian: “یانگیانگ”
  • Polish: “yangyanggun”
  • Portuguese: “Yangyang”
  • Romanian: “Yangyang”
  • Russian: “Янъян”
  • Spanish: “Yangyang”
  • Swedish: “Yangyang-gun”
  • Turkish: “Yangyang”
  • Ukrainian: “Ян’ян повіт”
  • Urdu: “یانگیانگ کاؤنٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Yangyang”
  • Welsh: “Sir Yangyang”
  • “Yangyang-gun”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Yangyang”. Photo: bryan retreat, CC BY 2.0.