Chongjin

city in North Pyongan province, North Korea
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Summary

Chongjin is a city of North Korea[1]. Chongjin draws 2,138 Wikipedia views per month (city of north korea category, ranking #4 of 23).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: North Hamgyong Province[3]
  • Country: North Korea[4]
  • Instance of: big city[5]
  • Official language: Korean[6]
  • Twinned administrative body: Khabarovsk[7], Changchun[8]
  • Commons category: Chongjin[9]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+09:00[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Chongjin[11]
  • Population: 667,929[12]
  • Capital of: North Hamgyong Province[13]
  • Official name: 청진시[14]
  • Category for people born here: Q49842514[15]
  • Category for people who died here: Q135493252[16]
  • Native label: 청진시[17]
  • Category of associated people: Category:People from Chongjin[18]
  • Area: 269 km²[19]

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Cultural Significance

Things named for Chongjin include Chongjin Airport[20], an airport[21], in North Korea[22].

Why It Matters

Chongjin has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] Chongjin is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Entities named for Chongjin include Chongjin Airport[20], an airport[21], in North Korea[22].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . en.changchun.gov.cn. en.changchun.gov.cn. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . unstats.un.org. unstats.un.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [21] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → North Hamgyong Province
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Chongjin
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 41.78333333333333, 'lon': 129.78333333333333}
    Population → {'amount': '+667929'}
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48043|batch #48043]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
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