Seoul
Seoul is the capital of South Korea. With a municipal population of over 10.5 million, and a metropolitan population totaling over 20.5 million, Seoul is by far South Korea's largest city and one of East Asia's financial and cultural centers.Photo: 이상곤, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Popular Destinations
Incheon International Airport
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Incheon International Airport is South Korea's largest airport, its main international gateway, and the main airport of Seoul.
Jongno
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Jongno is in Seoul, and constitutes the northern half of the historic core of Seoul, along with Jung, the southern half.
Destinations
Yongsan
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Yongsan is in Seoul's geographic center, sandwiched between Seoul's two major cultural and economic centers, Gangnam and Jongno/Jung.
Jung
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Jung is in Seoul, constituting the southern half of the historic core of Seoul, along with Jongno.
South Seoul
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Dongjak, Gwanak and Geumcheon are districts of Seoul south of the Han river.
Seodaemun-Mapo
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Seodaemun and Mapo are in northwestern Seoul, by the banks of the Han River.
East Seoul
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The districts of Dongdaemun, Jungnang, Gwangjin and Seongdong are in the east of the city…
North Seoul
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The districts of Gangbuk, Dobong, Eunpyeong, Seongbuk and Nowon are in the northern part of Seoul.
Yeongdeungpo-Guro
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Yeongdeungpo and Guro are districts in Seoul. Yeongdeungpo is mostly a commercial area, and many of the nation's media companies are based here especially in Yeouido.
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Notable Places in the Area
Changdeokgung
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Changdeokgung, also known as Changdeokgung Palace or Changdeok Palace, is set within a large park in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.
Gyeongbokgung
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Gyeongbokgung, also known as Gyeongbokgung Palace, was the main royal palace of the Joseon dynasty.
Cheong Wa Dae
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Cheong Wa Dae, also known as the Blue House in English, is a public park that formerly served as the executive office and official residence of the president of South Korea from 1948 to 2022.
Localities in the Area
Insa-dong
Insa-dong is a dong, or neighborhood, in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea.Seoul
- Type: City with 9,510,000 residents
- Description: capital of South Korea
- Neighbors: Gyeonggi and Incheon
- Categories: Special City of Korea, million city, big city, megacity, metropolis, largest city, capital city, primate city and locality
- Location: Gyeonggi, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
37.5665° or 37° 33' 60" northLongitude
126.978° or 126° 58' 41" eastPopulation
9,510,000Elevation
38 metres (125 feet)IATA airport code
SELUnited Nations Location Code
KR SELOpen Location Code
8Q98HX8H+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 1912365631OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1835848Wikidata ID
Q8684Seoul Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Seyul
- Abkhazian: Сеул
- Achinese: Seoul
- Afar: Seul
- Afrikaans: Seoel
- Albanian: Seoul
- Albanian: Seul
- Albanian: Seuli
- Amharic: ሶል
- Amharic: ሶውል
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): Σεούλη
- Angika: सियोल
- Arabic: Seoul
- Arabic: سول
- Arabic: سول تكبيولشي
- Arabic: سيئول
- Arabic: سيول
- Arabic: مدينة سول الخاصة
- Aragonese: Seúl
- Armenian: Սեուլ
- Assamese: চিউল
- Assamese: ছিউল
- Assamese: ছিওল
- Asturian: Seúl
- Azerbaijani: Seul
- Balinese: Seoul
- Banjar: Seoul
- Banjar: Soul
- Bashkir: Сеул
- Basque: Seul
- Belarusian: Сеул
- Belarusian: Сэул
- Bengali: সিউল
- Bhojpuri: सिओल
- Bhojpuri: सियोल
- Bhojpuri: सीयोल
- Bislama: Seoul
- Bosnian: Seoul
- Bosnian: Seul
- Breton: Seoul
- Bulgarian: Сеул
- Bulgarian: столица на Република Корея
- Burmese: ဆိုးလ်မြို့
- Catalan: Seül
- Cebuano: Seoul
- Central Bikol: Seoul
- Central Kurdish: سۆل
- Central Kurdish: سیئۆل
- Central Kurdish: سێئول
- Central Kurdish: شاری تایبەتی سێئول
- Central Kurdish: شاری سێئول
- Chechen: Сеул
- Chinese: Seoul Te̍k-pia̍t-chhī
- Chinese: 汉城
- Chinese: 漢城
- Chinese: 首尔
- Chinese: 首尔特别市
- Chinese: 首爾
- Chinese: 首爾特別市
- Chuvash: Сеул
- Cornish: Seoul
- Corsican: Seoul
- Corsican: Seul
- Corsican: 서울
- Crimean Tatar: Seul
- Croatian: Seoul
- Croatian: Seul
- Czech: Soul
- Danish: Seoul
- Dimli (individual language): Seul
- Dotyali: सियोल
- Dutch: Seoel
- Dutch: Seoul
- Eastern Mari: Сеул
- Egyptian Arabic: سول
- Egyptian Arabic: سيول
- English (Historic): Hanyang
- English: Gyeongseong
- English: Hanseong
- English: Hanyang
- English: Keijou
- English: Keijō
- English: Namgyeong
- English: Seoul-si
- English: Seoul City
- English: Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi
- English: Wiryeseong
- Erzya: Сеул ош
- Esperanto: Seulo
- Estonian: Seoul
- Estonian: Soul
- Estonian: Sŏul
- Extremaduran: Seúl
- Faroese: Seoul
- Fiji Hindi: Seoul
- Finnish: Soul
- French: Gyeongseong
- French: Hanseong
- French: Seoul
- French: Séoul
- French: Sŏul
- French: Ville spéciale de Séoul
- Gagauz: Seul
- Galician: Seoul Teukbyeolsi
- Galician: Seúl
- Galician: Sŏul T'ŭkpyŏlsi
- Gan Chinese: 首爾
- Georgian: სეული
- German: Gyeongseong
- German: Hanseong
- German: Hansŏng
- German: Hanyang
- German: Keijō
- German: Kyŏngsŏng
- German: Seoul
- German: Soul
- German: Söul
- German: Sŏul
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Seoul
- Greek: Σεούλ
- Guarani: Seúl
- Guarani: Seúlu
- Gujarati: સિઓલ
- Haitian: Seoul
- Hakka Chinese: Sú-ngì
- Hausa: Seoul
- Hawaiian: Seoul
- Hebrew: סאול
- Hebrew: סיאול
- Hindi: सियोल
- Hungarian: Szöul
- Icelandic: Seúl
- Ido: Seoul
- Iloko: Seoul
- Indonesian: Seoul
- Ingush: Сеул
- Interlingua: Seoul
- Interlingue: Seoul
- Irish: Seoul
- Irish: Súl
- Irish: príomhchathair na Cóiré Theas
- Italian: Seoul
- Italian: Seul
- Jamaican Creole English: Siol
- Japanese: ソウル
- Japanese: ソウル市
- Japanese: ソウル特別市
- Japanese: 京城
- Japanese: 南京
- Japanese: 漢城
- Japanese: 漢城府
- Japanese: 漢陽
- Japanese: 漢陽府
- Japanese: 首尔
- Japanese: 首爾
- Javanese: Seoul
- Kabiyè: Sewuuli
- Kabyle: Seyul
- Kalaallisut: Seoul
- Kannada: ಸಿಯೋಲ್
- Kannada: ಸೌಲ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Seul
- Kashubian: Seul
- Kazakh: Виресон
- Kazakh: Сеул
- Kazakh: Сеул қаласы
- Kazakh: Соу́ль
- Kazakh: Хансон
- Kazakh: Ханян
- Khmer: សេអ៊ូល
- Kirghiz: Сеул
- Kongo: Seoul
- Korean (Historic): 한양
- Korean: 서울
- Korean: 서울시
- Korean: 서울특별시
- Kurdish: Sêûl
- Ladino: Seul
- Lao: Seoul
- Lao: ໂຊລ
- Latin: Seulum
- Latin: Seulum Urbs Eximia
- Latvian: Seula
- Lezghian: Сеул
- Ligurian: Seoul
- Limburgan: Seoel
- Lingala: Sɔul
- Lingua Franca Nova: Seoul
- Literary Chinese: 首爾
- Lithuanian: Seulas
- Livvi: Seul
- Lombard: Seoul
- Low German: Seoul
- Lower Sorbian: Soul
- Luxembourgish: Seoul
- Macedo-Romanian: Seoul
- Macedonian: Сеул
- Malay: Seoul
- Malayalam: സോൾ
- Maltese: Seoul
- Maori: Houra
- Maori: Seoul
- Marathi: सोल
- Mazanderani: سئول
- Min Dong Chinese: Seoul
- Min Dong Chinese: Siū-ék
- Min Nan Chinese: Seoul Te̍k-pia̍t-chhī
- Minangkabau: Seoul
- Mingrelian: სეული
- Mirandese: Seul
- Moksha: Сэул
- Mongolian: Сөүл
- Moroccan Arabic: سيول
- Nauru: Seoul
- Nepali: सियोल
- Nepali: सोल
- Newari: सोल
- Northern Frisian: Seoul
- Northern Luri: سئول
- Norwegian: Seoul
- Norwegian Bokmål: Seoul
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Seoul
- Novial: Seoul
- Nyanja: Seoul
- Occitan (post 1500): Seol
- Oriya: ସିଓଲ
- Ossetian: Сеул
- Pa'o Karen: ဝေင်ꩻသိုး
- Pampanga: Seoul
- Panjabi: ਸਿਓਲ
- Papiamento: Seoul
- Persian: سئول
- Picard: Séoul
- Piemontese: Seoul
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Soel
- Polish: Seul
- Portuguese: Seul
- Pushto: سيول
- Pushto: سیول
- Quechua: Siul
- Quechua: Siyul
- Romanian: Seul
- Romanian: Сеул
- Romansh: Seoul
- Russia Buriat: Сеул
- Russia Buriat: Соүль
- Russian: Кэйдзё
- Russian: Сеул
- Russian: Столица Кореи
- Russian: Столица Республики Корея
- Russian: Столица Южной Кореи
- Rusyn: Соул
- Samogitian: Seuls
- Santali: ᱥᱤᱣᱩᱞ
- Sardinian: Seul
- Scots: Seoul
- Scottish Gaelic: Seoul
- Serbian: Сеул
- Serbo-Croatian: Seoul
- Serbo-Croatian: Seul
- Shona: Seoul
- Sicilian: Seoul
- Silesian: Seul
- Sinhala: සෝල්
- Sinhala: සෝල්
- Slovak: Soul
- Slovenian: Seul
- Somali: Seoul
- Somali: Seyul
- South Azerbaijani: سئول
- Spanish: Ciudad Especial de Seul
- Spanish: Ciudad Especial de Seúl
- Spanish: Seul
- Spanish: Seúl
- Sundanese: Seoul
- Swahili: Seoul
- Swedish: Seoul
- Swedish: Söul
- Swiss German: Seoul
- Tagalog: Espesyal na Siyudad ng Seoul
- Tagalog: Natatanging Lungsod ng Seoul
- Tagalog: Seoul
- Tagalog: Siyudad Espesyal ng Seoul
- Tajik: Сеул
- Tamil: சியோல்
- Tamil: ஸோல்
- Tatar: Seul
- Tatar: Сеул
- Telugu: సియొల్
- Telugu: సియోల్
- Thai: โซล
- Tibetan: སེ་ཨུལ།
- Tok Pisin: Sol
- Tosk Albanian: Seoul
- Turkish: Seul
- Turkmen: Seul
- Tyap: Sa̱ul
- Udmurt: Сеул
- Uighur: سېئول
- Ukrainian: Сеул
- Upper Sorbian: Seoul
- Urdu: سؤل
- Urdu: سیول
- Uzbek: Seul
- Venetian: Seul
- Veps: Seul
- Vietnamese: Seoul
- Vlaams: Seoel
- Vlax Romani: Seoul
- Volapük: Söul
- Võro: Sŏul
- Waray (Philippines): Seoul
- Welsh: Seoul
- Western Frisian: Seoel
- Western Frisian: Seoul
- Western Panjabi: سئول
- Western Panjabi: سیول
- Wu Chinese: 首尔
- Yakut: Сеул
- Yiddish: סעאל
- Yoruba: Seoul
- Yue Chinese: 漢城
- Yue Chinese: 首爾
- Zhuang: Soujwj
- Sye-ul
- Syou-ouen
- Wang-ching
- Wō-jō
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