Namdaemun
main gate of Seoul fortress; one of The Four Great Gates (cardinal) as one of The Eight Gates of Seoul as part of the Fortress Wall of Seoul, South Korea
Facts
12 properties- Instance of
- city gate
- Inception
- May 4, 2013, 1396 (?–2008)[5]
- Country
- South Korea[3]
- Located in
- Jung District
- Part of
- Seoul City Wall[4]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 37.560°, 126.975°[6]
- Coordinates
- 🗺️ 37.560°, 126.975°
- Heritage designation
- National Treasures of South Korea (1962–present)[8]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Jung District[2]
- Significant event
- 2008 Namdaemun fire[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Gate of Exalted Ceremonies
en Namdaemun
en Namdaemun Gate
en South Great Gate
en Sungnyemun
en Sungnyemun gate
ar نامدايمن
cs Namdaemun
cs Namdämun
cs Namdemun
cs Sungnjemun
cs Sungnyemun
de Sungnyemun
es Gran Puerta del Sur
es Sungnyemun
fa نامدائهمون
fi Namdaemun
fr porte Namtaemun
fr Sungnyemun
id Namdaemun
🔖 Identifiers · 17
- Library of Congress authority ID
- sh2014001539
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sungnyemun Gate, front, 2013.jpg ↗
- Asian Historical Architecture structure ID
- 408
- Atlas Obscura place ID
- namdaemun-south-korea
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
- 15994917f
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture ID
- E0028017
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
- topic/Namdaemun
- Facebook location ID
- 177700502423573
- Freebase ID
- /m/02pzlw
- GNS Unique Feature ID
- 10248692
- GeoNames ID
- 6800543
- MusicBrainz place ID
- ed7d0b9d-5d49-424f-b7c0-8d921d7b94f3
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- Namuwiki ID
- 숭례문
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007586180705171
- National Library of Korea ID
- KSH2002000685
- Structurae structure ID
- 20027049
- TripAdvisor ID
- 3808315
📚 Sources · 1
- GeoNames CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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Asia/Seoul
2026-09-26
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- Source
- GeoNames
- Edition
- 20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
- Bronze
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Summary
Namdaemun is a city gate[1].