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Chongjin (청진시) is a city is in the Donghae Coast region of North Korea.
Understand
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This is North Korea's third largest city and called the 'city of iron' owing to its status as a major centre of heavy industry.
| Nothing to Envy Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, by the American journalist Barbara Demick, is a partially novelized collection of interviews with six former residents of Chongjin, who later took refugee in South Korea. While the main plot revolves around the lives of six main characters/interviewees before and during the North Korean famine of 1990s and their eventual flight to South Korea, the book has lively depictions of Chongjin and the surrounding area, especially during the economic collapse of North Korea in the 1990s. |
Get in
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Chongjin is not part of most North Korean accompanied group itineraries but can be visited on customised tours.
By train
[edit | edit source]Chongjin is on the train line between Rason and the capital Pyongyang, as well as the southern city of Wonsan.
By plane
[edit | edit source]- 1 Orang Airport (RGO IATA Chongjin Airport) (40 km from the city). Air Koryo flies to the North Korean destinations of Haeju, Pyongyang and Wonsan. There are plans to extend this airport and make it North Korea's second international airport.
Get around
[edit | edit source]By tram
[edit | edit source]Chongjin has 11 kilometre of tramline.
By Trolley bus
[edit | edit source]There is a trolleybus network slightly more extensive than the tram-line.
See
[edit | edit source]- North Hamgyong Province Theatre.
- Pohanng Square. A 7.5 m bronze statue
- Revolutionary History Museum, Pohanng Square.
- Inmin Daehakseup Dang (Grand People's Study House).
Do
[edit | edit source]Buy
[edit | edit source]The city is famous in the country for its processed squid.
Eat
[edit | edit source]Drink
[edit | edit source]Local drinking water is known to be untreated. Bottled water is the best choice. Some tourists have been hospitalized in North Korea after drinking the public water.
Sleep
[edit | edit source]- Chonmasan Hotel. Hotel approved for foreigners
Connect
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[edit | edit source]Consulates
[edit | edit source]North Korean cities don't usually have foreign consulates, however Chongjin's important port status means it has two.
China. 
Russia.
