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Namp’o

Nampo, also spelled Namp'o, is a major city in North Korea which is the country's fourth-largest by population.

Namp’o
Namp’o · Raymond Cunningham (CC BY 2.0)
The place

Nampo, also spelled Namp'o, is a major city in North Korea which is the country's fourth-largest by population. The city is an important seaport in the country as it lies on the northern shore of the Taedong River estuary, 15 km east of the estuary's mouth. Formerly known as Chinnamp'o, it was a provincial-level "Directly Governed City" ("Chikhalsi") from 1980 to 2004, and was designated a "Special City" in 2010. Nampo is approximately 50 km southwest of Pyongyang, at the mouth of the Taedong River. Since North Korean independence, the city has developed a wide range of industry and has seen significant recent redevelopment.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

Goguryeo Tombs, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

From Wikivoyage: Namp’o, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

The Ryonggang County area of the city is famed for its apples.

From Wikivoyage: Namp’o, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Namp’o

Airports
Pyongyang Sunan (FNJ), 59 km · Incheon (ICN), 168 km · Seoul Gimpo (GMP), 178 km
Stations
Sinnampo Station, 2.5 km · Nampo Station, 400 m · Kalchon Station, 6.8 km · Toktong Station, 6.8 km
  • Pyongyang → Namp’o
    45 km · quickest by road, 59 min · $4.5–6
  • Seoul → Namp’o
    189 km · quickest by road, 44h 31m · ₩237,000–317,000
  • Cheongju → Namp’o
    297 km · quickest by air, 9h 13m · ₩153,450–237,860
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No local-transport research exists yet for Namp’o

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 Namp’o. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Muuido and the Incheon islandsKR

    9 ways of moving, 20 sources

    173 km
  2. 02
    Zamami and the Kerama IslandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 19 sources

    1,402 km
  3. 03
    Matsu IslandsTW

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    1,485 km
  4. 04
    Taketomi and the Yaeyama islandsJP

    12 ways of moving, 17 sources

    1,607 km
  5. 05
    SakhalinRU

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    1,682 km

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Around it

Next door to Namp’o

Namp’o is 36 km from Man’gyŏngdae-ri, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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