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Gaeseong

Gaeseong is the alternative form of Kaesong.

Meaning of Kaesong

Proper noun

Kaesong

  1. A city in North Korea.
    • The South's Hyundai Asan offers one-day trips to Kaesong, just north of the heavily armed border and about 70 km (45 miles) northwest of Seoul, where visitors can see ancient Korean history and take a glance at life in Asia's only communist dynasty.2008 November 14, Jon Herskovitz, “Travel Postcard: 8 hours, 32 minutes in Kaesong, North Korea”, in Jonathan Thatcher, Miral Fahmy, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2025
    Synonyms:
    Kaicheng

Questions about Gaeseong

What is Gaeseong the alternative form of?
Gaeseong is the alternative form of Kaesong.

Words near Gaeseong in the dictionary

  1. Gaertner's ducts
  2. Gaertnerian
  3. Gaertners
  4. Gaerwen
  5. Gaes
  6. Gaeseong
  7. Gaess
  8. Gaeta
  9. Gaetan
  10. Gaetulan
  11. Gaetulans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Gaeseong (page history and authors); Kaesong (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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