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Encyclopedia > Gunpo
Gunpo
Hangul: 군포시
Hanja: 軍浦市
Revised Romanization: Gunpo-si
McCune-Reischauer: Kunp'o-si
Statistics
Area: 36.35 km²
Population: 270,000 2003 est.
Pop. density: 7,427.8 people/km²
Administrative divisions: 11 dong
Image:Map Gunpo-si.png

Gunpo is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is part of the Capital Metropolitan Area. Hansei University is located in the city. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... Hangul (한글) is the native alphabet used to write the Korean language, as opposed to the Hanja system borrowed from China. ... Hanja (lit. ... The Revised Romanization of Korean is the official Korean language romanization system in South Korea. ... McCune-Reischauer 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 can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. ... Image File history File links made from Maps of Korea File links The following pages link to this file: Gunpo ... Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is divided into 1 Special City (Teukbyeolsi), 6 Metropolitan Cities (Gwangyeoksi), and 9 Provinces (Do). ... Gyeonggi is the most populous province in South Korea. ... The Capital Metropolitan Area is a region located at the center of the Korean peninsula and is home to the capital of South Korea, Seoul. ...


Seoul Subway Line 1, which connects Seoul with Cheonan, passes through the town, as does Line 4, which intersects with Line 1 at Geumjeong Station. In addition, the city is home to Gunpo Station, which stands on the Gyeongbu Line which runs between Seoul and Busan. Seoul Subway Line 1 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway links central Seoul, south Korea to Uijeongbu Bukbu Station in the northeast, Guro and Incheon Stations in the southwest, and Suwon and Cheonan Stations in the south. ... Seoul (서울,   listen?) is the capital of South Korea and is one of the most populous cities in the world, located in the northwestern part of the country on the Han River. ... Cheonan is a city in South Chungcheong province, South Korea. ... Seoul Subway Line 4 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway (dubbed the blue line) is a long line crossing from the southwest to the northeast across the Capital Metropolitan Area. ... The Gyeongbu Line (Gyeongbuseon) is the most important railway line in South Korea and one of the oldest, connecting Seoul to Suwon, Daejeon, Daegu, and Busan. ... Busan Metropolitan City, also commonly referred to as Pusan, is the largest harbor city in Korea, with a population of about 4 million, Busan is South Koreas second largest metropolis, next to Seoul. ...


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. ... 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. ...

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Administrative divisions of Gyeonggi province, South Korea Map showing the position of Gyeonggi province in South Korea
Capital
Suwon
Cities
Ansan | Anseong | Anyang | Bucheon | Dongducheon | Gimpo | Goyang | Gunpo | Guri | Gwacheon | Gwangju | Gwangmyeong | Hanam | Hwaseong | Icheon | Namyangju | Osan| Paju | Pocheon | Pyeongtaek | Seongnam | Siheung | Suwon | Uijeongbu | Uiwang | Yangju | Yongin
Counties
Gapyeong | Yangpyeong | Yeoju | Yeoncheon

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Gunpo - Galbijim (284 words)
Gunpo (군포시, 軍浦市, military.harbour.city) is a city in Gyeonggi-do.
Gunpo is located in a very small area and it is easy to overlook the fact that stations such as Sanbon Station are not located in Anyang, which is only three stops away.
The city of Gunpo (Sanbon Station area) seen from the mountain of Surisan, the highest in the city.
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It would be difficult to find many similarities between Grant County and Gunpo City, which is located about 20 miles south of the capital and largest city, Seoul, from looking at the vital statistics of each.
Gunpo boasts a population of about 270,000, and many of those people live in tall apartment complexes dotted throughout town.
Whether it was members of the Gunpo City cooperation team arranging visits or a stranger in a supermarket helping me with a locker for my goods, Korean society seems, from an outsider's point of view, to be based on people helping people.
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