Moraksan (sometimes referred to as ''Mt. Morak'') is located in

Gyeonggi-do Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

. The mountain is 385 meters above sea level. The mountain is almost entirely composed of rock. On the north side a precipitous mountain face stretches away like a wall. In its westside is

Uiwang Uiwang () is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is one of many satellite cities that ring Seoul, making up the Seoul Capital Area. Its largest immediate urban neighbor is Anyang. The low peaks of the Gwangju Mountains (including Moraks ...

Anyang Anyang (; ) is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, China. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the east, Hebi and Xinxiang to the south, and the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei to its west and north respectively. It had a ...

. On Moraksan, there is a

tropaion A tropaion ( el, τρόπαιον, la, tropaeum), from which the English word, " trophy", is derived, was a monument erected to commemorate a victory over one's foes by the ancient Greeks and later, by the Romans. The armour of the defeated fo ...

of the 1st Division, a 15th infantry regiment. Hiking the mountain takes about 2 hours and 30 minutes.

References

*www.ggtour.or.kr *http://map.naver.com/local/siteview.nhn?code=11491376&type=spot {{coord missing, South Korea Mountains of South Korea Mountains of Gyeonggi Province

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