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The districts of Seoul are the twenty-five gu (districts; Korean: 구; Hanja: 區) comprising Seoul, South Korea. The gu vary greatly in area (from 10 to 47 km 2) and population (from less than 140,000 to 630,000). Songpa District is the most populated, while Seocho District has the largest area.
This category will contain the 25 gu (districts) which make up the city of Seoul, South Korea. Subcategories This category has the following 30 subcategories, out of 30 total.
Insadong street sign, 2014. Teheranno road post that says "Tehran Road" both in Korean hangul (테헤란로) and Persian (خیابان تهران), 2007. Neighborhoods of Seoul are not governmental administrative divisions, but rather more informal area designations, often surrounding a particular landmark, such as a road, a university, or a gate of the old city. Names are listed in Hangul and ...
A gu (Korean: 구), or district, is an administrative unit in South Korea. There are two kinds of districts in South Korea . One is the autonomous district ( 자치구 ; jachigu ) of special and metropolitan cities, which is a municipal entity similar to a city with its own mayor along with its own legislative council.
A dong (동; 洞) is the primary division of districts (gu), and of those cities (si) which are not divided into districts. The dong is the smallest level of urban government to have its own office and staff. In some cases, a single legal dong is divided into several administrative dong.
Although Jongno is a district, its residents are entitled to elect their own mayor and form their own district council, as 25 districts in Seoul——including Jongno——have city-equivalent status. The City of Seoul has province-equivalent status and its mayor is regarded as a cabinet-minister-level position. The mayorship is regarded as a ...
Seodaemun District (Korean: 서대문구; RR: Seodaemun-gu) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea. Seodaemun has a population of 313,814 (2010) and has a geographic area of 17.61 km 2 (6.8 sq mi ), and is divided into 14 dong (administrative neighborhoods).
Dongdaemun District (Korean: 동대문구; RR: Dongdaemun-gu) is one of the 25 districts of Seoul, South Korea. Dongdaemun has a population of 346,770 (2010) and has a geographic area of 14.22 km 2 (5.49 sq mi ), and is divided into 14 dong (administrative neighborhoods).
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