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Seoul, [b] officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, [c] is the capital and largest city of South Korea.The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, [8] emerged as the world's sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and New York, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population.
As it was a walled city, presence of the Seoul City Wall made great influence on imagined geographies of Seoul, like the London Wall surrounding Londinium. By the Seoul City Wall, Hanseong-bu was divided into two regions; an urban downtown space named as Seong-jung (성중; 城中) or Doseong-an (도성 안; lit.
The name "Seoul" does not originate from hanja. The official Chinese translation is written as 首爾 / 首尔, which is a transcription based on the pronunciation of "Seoul", but 漢城 / 汉城 remains frequently used. As an affix or abbreviation, the character gyeong (京), which means "capital", is used.
English: Editable Vector Map of the Seoul (City Center) South Korea in SVG format. Can be edited in the following programs: Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, InkScape Principal streets and roads, names places, residential streets and roads, road number labels, water objects, land use areas.
Info This map is part of a series of location maps with unified standards: SVG as file format, standardised colours and name scheme. The boundaries on these maps always show the de facto situation and do not imply any endorsement or acceptance. In case of changes of the shown area the file is updated.
The Seoul Metropolitan Area is divided among the special city of Seoul, the metropolitan city of Incheon, and province of Gyeonggi. Seoul has 25 gu (local government wards), [12] Incheon has 8 gu and 2 counties, and Gyeonggi Province has 28 cities and 3 counties as the subdivisions.
The country's bustling central city saw this phenomenon as a social problem linked to disconnection and plans to spend around $327 million over the next 5 years to make Seoul a "city without ...
The Seoul Metropolitan City roads, known as 서울특별시도 in Korean (Seoulteukbyeolsido), is a form network of highways that cover the metropolitan region of Seoul. These highways are maintained and designated by urban municipalities and are distinguished from other road systems by their official number and guide number.