Sokcho
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Sokcho
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipal city
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Korean
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- Hangul
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type2
- Hanja
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info3
- Sokcho-si
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info4
- Sokch'o-si
- Settlement.image_caption
- From the left: Geumgang Bridge, Sokcho Central Market, Daepo Port, Ulsanbawi, and Naksansa
- Settlement.image_map
- Gangwon-Sokcho.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in South Korea
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 105.76
- Settlement.population_as_of
- September 2024
- Settlement.population_total
- 81,164
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- 850
- Settlement.parts_type
- Administrative divisions
- Settlement.parts
- 10 dong
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- South Korea
- Located in
- Gangwon Province
- Population
- 79846
- Area
- 105.25
- Elevation
- 2
- Time zone
- UTC+09:00
- Official website
- sokcho.gangwon.kr/foreign/eng/html/main.html
- Image
- Korea-Sokcho from Seoraksan-01.jpg
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- twinned administrative body
- Taitung City
- Commons category
- Sokcho
- topic's main category
- Category:Sokcho
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sokcho
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- History
- Tourism
- Seoraksan National Park
- Lakes
- Buddhist temples
- Traditional village
- Festivals
- Infrastructure
- Airport
- Station
- Stadium
- Food
- Culture
- Climate
- Sister cities
- Gallery
- Notable people from Sokcho
- In literature
- See also
- References
- External links
Sokcho (; ) is a city and major tourist hub located in the northeast of the South Korean state of Gangwon.
== History == From around the 3rd century to the early 5th century AD, Sokcho was part of Dongye. Originally a sparsely inhabited fishing village on the shores of Lake Cheongchoho, it became a major port due to its location on the Sea of Japan (known as the East Sea in Korea). Sokcho later became a mineral transfer port in 1937.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sokcho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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