Gwangsan-gu
Gwangsan District is a district, similar to a ward, of Jeonnam-Gwangju, South Korea. The district was once part of the city of Gwangju, but on July 1, 2026, that city was dissolved and merged with South Jeolla Province into the provincial-level city of Jeonnam-Gwangju.
- Type: Borough with 393,000 residents
- Description: administrative division in Gwangju, South Korea
- Also known as: “Gwangsan District” and “광산”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Gwangju Airport and GwangjuSongjeong station.
GwangjuSongjeong station
Railway station
Gwangsan-gu
- Categories: district of South Korea (autonomous) and locality
- Location: Gwangju, South Jeolla, South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.1396° or 35° 8′ 23″ north
Longitude
126.7938° or 126° 47′ 38″ east
Population
393,000
Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)
Open location code
8Q784QQV+VG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=borough
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Gwangsan-gu” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Gwangsan-gu”
- Chinese: “光山区”
- Chinese: “光山區”
- Dutch: “Gwangsan District”
- Greek: “Γκουάνγκσαν-γκου”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Gwangsan”
- Italian: “Distretto di Gwangsan”
- Italian: “Gwangsan-gu”
- Japanese: “光山区”
- Korean: “Gwangsan-gu”
- Korean: “광산구”
- Malayalam: “ഗ്വാങ്സാൻ ജില്ല”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gwangsan Khu”
- Russian: “Квансан-гу”
- Russian: “Квансан”
- Spanish: “Gwangsan”
- Swedish: “Gwangsan-gu”
- Turkish: “Gwangsan”
- Urdu: “گوانگسان ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Gwangsan-gu”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Gwangsan”
- “Gwangsan-gu”
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Places to explore: Songjeong-dong and Dosan-dong.
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