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This is a list of capital cities, including the legislature or seat of government, of South Korea and its current provinces and provincial-level cities. National capital [ edit ]
North Korea: Pyongyang: Chosŏn as called in NK 조선 / 朝鮮 Bukchosŏn 북조선: P'yŏngyang 평양 / 平壌: Korean (Hangul/Hanja) South Korea: Seoul: Hanguk as called in SK 한국 / 韓國 Namhan 남한: Seoul 서울: Korean (Hangul/Hanja) Kosovo [14] Pristina: Kosova Kosovo Косово: Prishtinë Priština Приштина: Albanian ...
Name Country View Population Mayor or governor or president Beijing: China: 21,542,000 (2018, municipality) Yin Yong: Pyongyang: North Korea: 2,870,000 (2016)
Korea has had a number of capitals. Korea is a peninsula in East Asia , currently the peninsula is divided into two countries: North Korea's capital is Pyongyang , and South Korea's capital is Seoul .
This is a list cities of South Korea by population including provincial-level divisions: special city (특별시/特別市) and metropolitan cities (광역시/廣域市), and municipal-level division: cities (시/市). Other municipal-level divisions: counties (군/郡 which have populations under 50K) and districts (구/區) are not included.
On a 1751 map of China and Korea prepared in France, Seoul was marked as "King-Ki-Tao, Capitale de la Corée", using an approximation of the Chinese pronunciation of Gyeonggi Province (京畿道). The use of "King-Ki-Tao" to refer to Seoul was repeated again on the 1851 Tallis/Rapkin map of both Japan and Korea. [16]
South Korea still uses some Chinese Hanja characters in limited areas, such as print media and legal documentation. The Korean language in South Korea has a standard dialect known as the Seoul dialect, with an additional four dialects (Chungcheong, Gangwon, Gyeongsang, and Jeolla) and one language in use around the country.
This is a list of national capitals, including capitals of territories and dependencies, non-sovereign states including associated states and entities whose sovereignty is disputed. The capitals included on this list are those associated with states or territories listed by the international standard ISO 3166-1 , or that are included in the ...