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Encyclopedia > Donghae City
Donghae City Image:Donghae.jpg
Hangul: 동해시
Hanja: 東海市
Revised Romanization: Donghae-si
McCune-Reischauer: Tonghae-si
Statistics
Area: 180.01 km²
Population: 103,115 (2001)
Pop. density: 572 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 10 dong
Image:Map_Donghae-si.PNG

Donghae is a city in Gangwon Province, South Korea. There are two major ports: Donghae Harbor and Mukho Harbor. The city is located on the Yeongdong Line railroad and the Donghae Expressway. Numerous caverns are found in the city, as in neighboring Samcheok. Donghae University is located here. This work is copyrighted. ... Hangul is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja, or hanmun, sometimes translated as Sino-Korean characters, are what Chinese characters (hanzi) are called in Korean. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean (Korean: 국어의 로마자 표기법; 國語의 로마字 表記法) is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer romanization is one of the two most widely used Korean language romanization systems, along with the Revised Romanization of Korean, which replaced (a modified) McCune-Reischauer as the official romanization system in South Korea in 2000. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is divided into 1 Special City (Teukbyeolsi), 6 Metropolitan Cities (Gwangyeoksi), and 9 Provinces (Do). ... Gangwon (Gangwon-do) is a province of South Korea, with its capital at Chuncheon. ... Mukho is a harbor in Donghae City, Gangwon Province, South Korea. ... The Yeongdong Line is a line on the Korean National Railroad. ... Alternate meanings: Cave (disambiguation) The outside world viewed from a cave A cave is a natural underground void. ... Samcheok is a city in Gangwon Province, South Korea. ... Donghae University is a private university in South Korea. ...


See also

This is a list of Wikipedia articles on Korea-related people, places, things, and concepts. ... Map of South Korea The largest cities in South Korea have self-governing status equivalent to that of provinces. ... Map of South Korea South Korea is located in Eastern Asia, on the southern half of the Korean Peninsula jutting out from the far east of the Asian land mass. ...

External links

  • Donghae city government home page


Administrative divisions of Gangwon province, South Korea Map showing the position of Gangwon province in South Korea
Capital
Chuncheon
Cities
Chuncheon | Donghae | Gangneung | Samcheok | Sokcho | Taebaek | Wonju
Counties
Cheorwon | Goseong | Hoengseong | Hongcheon | Hwacheon | Inje | Jeongseon | Pyeongchang | Yanggu | Yangyang | Yeongwol

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Donghae - Galbijim (296 words)
To the north of the city is Okgye-myeon, to the west is Imgye-myeon, to the south is the city of Samcheok, and to the east is the sea.
Donghae stretches for 17.8 km to the east and west, and 19.8 km to the north and south.
Donghae is located in an area with a highway extending from Gangneung on one side to Mukpo on the other.
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