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)

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Korean-English Place Names

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KCP

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CEP

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Chinese-English database of CJK and Western place names