Chongjin
Chongjin is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province.
Chongjin is the capital of North Korea's North Hamgyong Province. It is the country's third-largest city by population and an important port city on the northeastern coast. Originally a small fishing village, it industrialized significantly under Japanese rule and later under the North Korean government.
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Worth seeing in and around Chongjin
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Trams in Chongjin
Chongjin Tram is a public tram system in Chongjin, Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The line opened in 1999.
6.2 km · tram system in North Korea · Wikipedia - 02North Hamgyong Province E-Library
North Hamgyong Province E-Library is a public library located in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province, North Korea. The library was opened in 2012, it is situated very close to the Grand Monument Statues in the middle of Chongjin City.
6.4 km · Public library in Chongjin, North Korea · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
North Hamgyong Province Theatre. Pohanng Square. A 7.5 m bronze statue Revolutionary History Museum, Pohanng Square. Inmin Daehakseup Dang (Grand People's Study House).
From Wikivoyage: Chongjin, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Chongjin
- Airports
- Vladivostok (VVO), 269 km
- Stations
- Chongjin Chongnyon Station, 6.9 km · Ranam Station, 5.9 km · Susong Station, 7.4 km
- Pyongyang → Chongjin458 km · quickest by road, 10h 52m · $55–80
- Artyom → Chongjin263 km · quickest by road, 7h 30m · ₽1,570–2,100
- Seoul → Chongjin528 km · quickest by road, 49h 14m · ₩273,000–365,000
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Chongjin
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chongjin. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Chongjin – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Chongjin
- Ranam-guyokdistrict of Chongjin, North Korea6.4 km
- Pohang-guyokdistrict of Chongjin, North Korea5.9 km
- Sunam-guyokdistrict of Chongjin, North Korea4 km
- Songpyong-guyokdistrict of Chongjin, North Korea8.7 km