Local time
Fri, 6:13 AM GMT+9Asia/SeoulCity
Cheongju
36.64° N, 127.50° E
- Population
- 775,096
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 13 of 27
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 27 cities of South Korea in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of South Korea, so this is not a national ranking.
- Founded
- 1946
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 39 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 940 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- North Chungcheong
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- Time zone
- Asia/Seoul
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Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for Cheongju, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in Cheongju have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
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