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  2. Names of Seoul - Wikipedia

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    Seoul, the capital of South Korea, has been called by a number of formal and informal names over time. The word seoul was originally a common noun that simply meant "capital city", and was used colloquially to refer to the capital throughout Korean history. Seoul became the official name of the South Korean capital after its liberation from ...

  3. Seoul - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. List of cities in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Administrative divisions of South Korea - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Portal:Seoul - Wikipedia

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    Gangnam Commercial Area The Flag of the Seoul. Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital and largest city of South Korea.The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, 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 ...

  7. List of districts of Seoul - Wikipedia

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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).

  8. Downtown Seoul - Wikipedia

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    Seoul in the age of Joseon was called Hanyang (or by official name of its administrative division and governing authority Hanseong-bu).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.

  9. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    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).