Namhaedo
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Namhaedo () or Namhae Island is the principal island of Namhae County, on the southern coast of South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the fifth largest island in South Korea. Together with Changseon Island, it forms Namhae County. It is joined to land by Namhae Bridge.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Namhaedo
- Islands.image_caption
- View from the mountain Geumsan on the island (2008)
- Islands.native_name
- 남해도
- Islands.native_name_link
- Korean language
- Islands.location
- Korea Strait
- Islands.mapframe zoom
- 9
- Islands.area_km2
- 300
- Islands.highest_mount
- Mangun
- Islands.elevation_m
- 786
- Islands.country
- South Korea
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- Province
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- South Gyeongsang
- Islands.country_largest_city
- Namhae
- Islands.ethnic_groups
- Korean
- Islands.image
- Geumsan of Namhae, Korea.jpg
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- ^남해도
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 南海島
- Korean name/auto.child
- yes
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Namhaedo () or Namhae Island is the principal island of Namhae County, on the southern coast of South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It is the fifth largest island in South Korea. Together with Changseon Island, it forms Namhae County. It is joined to land by Namhae Bridge.
== History == Namhaedo is where Korean admiral Yi Sun-sin died in 1598.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Namhaedo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations