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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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Downtown Seoul (Korean: 서울 도심, 서울 도심부, 서울 시내), also known as Seoul Central Business District or Sadaemun-An is traditional city center and central business district of Seoul, located through Gwanghwamun of Jongno District and Seoul Station of Jung District along the Sejong-daero and Jong-ro.
Gangnam District is the third largest district in Seoul, with an area of 39.5 km 2 (15.3 sq mi). As of the 2024 census, Gangnam District had a population of 556,570. [ 1 ] There is a high concentration of wealth in the district, with prices for an apartment as of 2024 more than double those in the rest of Seoul.
The location has been used in many South Korean shows because the area was once home to a lot of old buildings and alleyways, and is characterised as a place where rather impoverished people live. This makes it easier for writers to establish "rags to riches" stories and to communicate a sense of warmth to the audience and a place with ...