Yeosu
Yeosu is a coastal city in South Jeolla province, South Korea. Yeosu is one of the country's most picturesque port cities especially at night. Famous for its seafood, beaches, flowers and marinas, it is developing as an international ocean resort and tourist destination and was selected as a host city for the 2012 World Expo in Yeosu Harbor.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 289,000 residents
- Description: City in South Korea
- Also known as: “Yŏch’ŏn” and “Yŏsu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ungcheon Beach Park and Geobukseon Park.
Ungcheon Beach Park
Park
Ungcheon Beach Park is a beach and park in Ungcheon-dong, Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. It is a beach next to Gamak Bay. The beach was first opened in March 2010, and has an area of 23,534 square meters.
Geobukseon Park
Park
Geobukseon Park is a public park in Hak-dong, Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. It was founded in 1992, and has an area of 48,630 square meters.
Ansan Neighborhood Park
Park
Ansan Neighborhood Park is a public park in Hak-dong, Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. It first opened to the public on June 25, 2019. It has an area of 45,097 square meters.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ungcheon-dong.
Ungcheon-dong
Quarter
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ungcheon-dong is a dong of Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. As of September 2022, the population in the area is 28,658, living in 10,166 households.
Yeosu
- Categories: city of South Korea, big city, and locality
- Location: Yeosu-si, South Jeolla, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.7546° or 34° 45′ 17″ northLongitude
127.6599° or 127° 39′ 36″ eastPopulation
289,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
RSUUnited Nations Location Code
KR YOSOpen location code
8Q69QM35+VWOpenStreetMap ID
node 358015308OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1884138Wikidata ID
Q42125
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Yeosu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “يوسو”
- Armenian: “Յոսու”
- Basque: “Yeosu”
- Bengali: “ইয়েওসু”
- Catalan: “Yeosu”
- Cebuano: “Yeosu”
- Chinese: “Yeosu Chhī”
- Chinese: “丽水市”
- Chinese: “全羅南道麗水市”
- Chinese: “麗水”
- Chinese: “麗水市”
- Czech: “Josu”
- Danish: “Yeosu”
- Dutch: “Yeosu”
- Esperanto: “Josu”
- Finnish: “Yeosu”
- French: “Yeosu”
- Galician: “Yeosu”
- Georgian: “იოსუ”
- German: “Yeosu-si”
- German: “Yeosu”
- Greek: “Γιόσου”
- Gujarati: “યેઓસુ”
- Hindi: “एऑसु”
- Hungarian: “Joszu”
- Hungarian: “Yeosu”
- Indonesian: “Yeosu”
- Interlingue: “Yeosu”
- Irish: “Yeosu”
- Italian: “Yeosu”
- Japanese: “麗水市 (全羅南道)”
- Japanese: “麗水市”
- Kannada: “ಯೇಸು”
- Kazakh: “Йосу”
- Korean: “Yeosu-si”
- Korean: “려수시”
- Korean: “여수”
- Korean: “여수시”
- Latvian: “Josu”
- Literary Chinese: “全羅南道麗水市”
- Lithuanian: “Joisu”
- Lithuanian: “Josu”
- Lombard: “Yeosu”
- Malay: “Yeosu”
- Maltese: “Yeosu”
- Marathi: “येओसु”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Yeosu Chhī”
- Mongolian: “Ёсү”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Yeosu”
- Norwegian: “Yeosu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Yeosu”
- Persian: “یئوسو”
- Persian: “یوسو”
- Polish: “Yeosu”
- Portuguese: “Yeosu”
- Romanian: “Yeosu”
- Russian: “Йосу”
- Silesian: “Yeosu”
- Sinhala: “යෙඔසු”
- Spanish: “Yeosu”
- Swedish: “Yeosu”
- Tagalog: “Yeosu”
- Tamil: “எஓஸு”
- Tatar: “Йосу”
- Telugu: “యెయోసు”
- Thai: “ยอซู”
- Turkish: “Yeosu”
- Ukrainian: “Йосу”
- Urdu: “یوسو”
- Venetian: “Yeosu”
- Vietnamese: “Yeosu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Yeosu”
- Yue Chinese: “麗水 (韓國)”
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