Castle
Suncheon Castle
🇰🇷 South Korea
Suncheon Castle, also known as Suncheon Waeseong (Korean: 순천왜성), Japanese name Juntenjō (順天城), is the only remaining Japanese castle in South Jeolla Province, and the battlefield of Yi Sun-sin who tempted Konishi Yukinaga from here to Noryang Point known as Battle of Noryang Point.
Text adapted from “Suncheon Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Suncheon Castle ranks #3,220 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #13 of the 56 mapped in South Korea. See how South Korea compares in the castle statistics.
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