Korean-Japanese Place Names
Approximately 90,000 entries
Covers Korean and non-Korean names
Various attributes such as romanization
Overview
CJKI’s Korean-Japanese Database of Place Names (KJP) is a bilingual dictionary that covers Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Western place names. KJP includes romanized equivalents in all major romanization systems, as well as hanja (Chinese characters used in Korean) for Korean place names.
This data was compiled on the basis of precise transcription and transliteration rules, and verified by our Korean editors. It supports the Revised Romanization of Korean, the latest standard published by the Korean government in 2000.
Korean-Japanese Place Names
Practical Applications
KJP is used by some of the world’s major IT companies for a wide variety of applications, such as:
Machine translation
Morphological analysis
Input method editors (IME)
Geographical data for maps
Information retrieval
Electronic dictionaries
Named-entity recognition (NER)
Related Resources
Korean-English Place Names
Korean-English database of CJK and Western place names
Korean-Chinese Place Names
Korean-Chinese database of CJK and Western place names
Chinese-English Place Names
Chinese-English database of CJK and Western place names