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During the Joseon era, it started to be called Seoul by the public. In the middle of Joseon era, Hanseong and Hanyang were almost replaced by Seoul and remained only formal names. [4] During the period of Japanese colonial rule, Seoul was referred to by the Japanese exonym Keijō (京城), or the Korean reading of that name Gyeongseong.
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.
[28] [29] English-language publications in the 19th century generally used the spelling Corea, which was also used at the founding of the UK's embassy in Seoul in 1890. [30] However, at the turn of the century, the then U.S. minister and consul general to Korea, Horace Newton Allen , used "Korea" in his works published on the country. [ 31 ]
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), fourteen of which are located north of the Han River, and eleven south.
Lüshun – formerly Port Arthur in English, or Ryojun during the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 1940s. Lviv, Ukraine – originally called Lviv. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Ruthenia from 1272 until 1349, when it was conquered by Polish Kingdom and became Lwów.
The following is a list of adjectival forms of cities in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these cities. Demonyms ending in -ese are the same in the singular and plural forms. The ending -man has feminine equivalent -woman (e.g. an Irishman and a Scotswoman).
Official English name [5] Capital Hangul Hanja Population 2020 Census Area (km 2) Population density 2022 (per km 2) KR-11: Seoul special city: Seoul: Jung District: 서울특별시: 서울 特別市: 9,586,195 605.20 15,578.16 KR-26: Busan metropolitan city: Busan: Yeonje District: 부산광역시: 釜山廣域市: 3,349,016 770.04 4,309.46 KR ...
Hankook Gyeongje (Seoul, national) Herald Economy (Seoul, national) Ilgan Sports (Seoul, national) Jeju Ilbo (Jeju, regional) Kookje Shinmun (Busan, regional) Kyosu Shinmun; Maeil Gyeongje (Seoul, national) Media Today [2] Money Today (Seoul, national) Naeil Shinmun [3] NewsPim; Seoul Gyeongje (Seoul, national) Sisa Journal [4] Sports Chosun ...