Gyeonggi
Gyeonggi is a province in the north-west of South Korea, surrounding the national capital city of Seoul.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Seoul and Incheon.
Seoul
Seoul is the capital of South Korea. With a population of over 9 million, Seoul is by far South Korea's largest city and one of East Asia's financial and cultural centers.
Incheon
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Incheon is a city in South Korea on the coast directly bordering the west of Seoul. It is a rapidly expanding centre for new urban development. Several beautiful islands, such as Yeongjong Island and Ganghwa Island, are also within city limits.
Suwon
Suwon is a city in the southern central part of Gyeonggi-do. As the provincial capital, it is the political, economic and administration center of Gyeonggi-do.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Ansan and Gwangju.
Ansan
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Ansan is a city in Gyeonggi, South Korea, on the coast of the Yellow Sea. The Yellow Sea lies to the west of the city, and portions of various islands lie within the city's jurisdiction.
Gwangju
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Gwangju is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea about 6 km southeast of eastern Seoul. Gwangju is an exciting city filled with diverse activities that are hard to find elsewhere in the Seoul metropolitan area.
Pangyo
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Pangyo is a city in Gyeonggi, administratively part of the city of Seongnam, just south of Seoul. Pangyo is a planned city surrounding Pangyo-dong, Baekhyeon-dong, Unjung-dong, and Sampyeong-dong of Bundang-gu and Siheung-dong and Sasong-dong of Sujeong-gu.
Goyang
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Goyang is a city in Gyeonggi Province in the north of South Korea. It is part of the Seoul Metropolitan Area, making Goyang one of Seoul's satellite cities.
Yongin
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Yongin is in Gyeonggi province in South Korea. Yongin is home to large scale amusement parks and resorts, the Korean Folk Village and a ski resort.
Bucheon
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Bucheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province 25 km away from Seoul, of which it is a satellite city. It is located between Incheon and Seoul.
Pyeongtaek
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Pyeongtaek is a city in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, known for its strategic location as a major transportation hub and its proximity to U.S. military bases such as Camp Humphreys.
Hwaseong
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Hwaseong is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is located on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It has the largest area of farmland of any city or county in Gyeonggi Province.
Paju
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Paju is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Paju was made a city in 1997; it had previously been a county. The city area of Paju is 672.78 km2, and it is located just south of Panmunjeom on the 38th parallel.
Gunpo
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Gunpo is a small city dominated by greenspace with numerous of small mountains and Surisan mountain which is south of South Korea's capital city Seoul.
Uijeongbu
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Uijeongbu is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It is the tenth-most populous city in the province and a suburb of Seoul within the greater Seoul Metropolitan Area.
Ganghwa Island
Ganghwa Island, previously romanized as Kanghwa Island, is a rural county of Incheon, South Korea. It is the fourth largest island in South Korea, with an area of 302.6km2.
Dongducheon
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Dongducheon is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The city, to the north of Seoul, is strategically important for the defense of the Korean capital.
Namyangju
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Namyangju is a city in the northeast part of Gyeonggi province, South Korea. Namyangju's best-known son, and one of Korea's greatest writers, was Jeong Yak-yong. Both his birthplace and his tomb are in the town, plus Jeong Yak-yong Ecological Park.
Icheon
Icheon is a small city south east of Seoul in Gyeonggi-do Province. Icheon is a center for Korean ceramics and holds the annual Icheon Ceramic festival - the largest ceramic culture festival in Korea.
Gwangmyeong
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Gwangmyeong is in Gyeonggi province in South Korea, a satellite city designed to decentralize Seoul's residential functions. It borders Seoul's Geumcheon-gu on the east, Seoul's Guro-gu on the north, Siheung-si and Bucheon-si on the west and Anyang-si on the south.
Yeonpyeong Island
Yeonpyeong Island is a group of South Korean islands in the Yellow Sea, in Gyeonggi province in South Korea. It lies about 80 km west of Incheon and 12 km south of the coast of Hwanghae Province, North Korea. The island is known for its crab fisheries.
Yangju
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Yangju is a city in northern Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Yangju is a daily tourist destination in the metropolitan area with beautiful natural scenery, and there are Jangheung tourist attractions, Bukhansan National Park, Bulgoksan Mountain, Gamaksan Mountain, and Cheonbosan Mountain.
Gwacheon
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Gwacheon is in Gyeonggi, just south of Seoul. The city grew as a planned city in 1980s and 90s when many of the government offices and facilities was moved from Seoul.
Yeoju
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Yeoju is a city in Gyeonggi province, South Korea. On the land, the town of wonju is to the east, Icheon and Gwangju is to the westside, yangpyeong is on the north side, Chungju and Eumsong is to the nothe side.
Pocheon
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Pocheon is a city of about 36,000 in northern Gyeonggi. Major attractions are Sanjeong Lake, Baekun Valley, Sinbuk Hot Springs, Sanjeong Hot Springs, National Arboretum, Bidulginang Falls, and Herb Island.
Daebudo
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Daebudo is an island that is part of Ansan city in the province of Gyeonggi, South Korea. Daebudo is known as 'the Hawaii of Ansan'. The northern tip of the island is connected to the Ansan mainland by the Sihwa seawall, which has a road running along it.
Yangpyeong
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Yangpyeong is a county and urban area located in the Middle East of Gyeonggi-do, Korea. With an area of 877.08 km2, it is the largest municipality in Gyeonggi-do, but most of them are forested.
Baengnyeong Island
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Baengnyeongdo, sometimes Baekryeong Island, is an island in Ongjin County, Incheon, South Korea. It is an inhabited island located near the Northern Limit Line, and is closer to North Korea than it is to the South.
Songdo
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Songdo, officially known as the Songdo International Business District, is a district in Incheon, South Korea, located 30 km southwest of Seoul. Built on 1,500 acres of reclaimed land along the Yellow Sea, the district is home to 170,000 residents and is still under construction, over 30 years since construction began.
Gapyeong
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Gapyeong is a small town of 20,000 people in Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea. Gapyeong is in the eponymous county, famous all over Korea for pine nuts and Nami island.
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Gyeonggi
- Type: Province with 13,600,000 residents
- Description: province in South Korea
- Also known as: “Gyeonggi Province”, “Gyeonggi-do”, “Kyŏnggi”, “Kyunggi-do”, and “Kyungki-do”
- Neighbors: Gangwon, Incheon, North Chungcheong, Seoul, and South Chungcheong
- Categories: province of South Korea and locality
- Location: South Korea, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
37.2885° or 37° 17′ 19″ northLongitude of center
127.0535° or 127° 3′ 13″ eastPopulation
13,600,000Elevation
80 metres (262 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 1850580646OpenStreetMap feature
place=province
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Gyeonggi” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Gyeonggi”
- Arabic: “غيونغي دو”
- Arabic: “غيونغي”
- Armenian: “Գյոնգի-դո”
- Armenian: “Գյոնգի”
- Armenian: “Գյոնգիդո”
- Azerbaijani: “Köngido vilayəti”
- Azerbaijani: “Kyonqido”
- Balinese: “Gyeonggi”
- Basque: “Gyeonggi”
- Belarusian: “Кёнгідо”
- Bengali: “গিয়েওনগি প্রদেশ”
- Bulgarian: “Кьонги-до”
- Burmese: “ဂယောင်းဂီတိုင်း”
- Catalan: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Cebuano: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Central Kurdish: “پارێزگای گیۆنگگی”
- Chinese: “Gyeonggi Tō”
- Chinese: “京畿”
- Chinese: “京畿道”
- Czech: “Gjŏnggi”
- Czech: “Kjonggi”
- Danish: “Gyeonggi Province”
- Dutch: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Esperanto: “Gjongi”
- Estonian: “Gyeonggi provints”
- Estonian: “Kyŏnggi provints”
- Finnish: “Gyeonggi”
- French: “Gyeonggi”
- Galician: “Gyeonggi”
- Georgian: “გიონგიდოს პროვინცია”
- Georgian: “კიონგიდო”
- German: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Greek: “Γκιόνγκι-ντο”
- Greek: “επαρχία Γκιόνγκι”
- Gujarati: “ગ્યોંગી પ્રાંત”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gyeonggi Tho”
- Hakka Chinese: “Kîn-ki-tho”
- Hebrew: “קיונגי”
- Hindi: “गियॉन्गी प्रांत”
- Hungarian: “Kjonggi”
- Ido: “Kyonki provinco”
- Iloko: “Gyeonggi”
- Indonesian: “Gyeonggi”
- Italian: “Gyeonggi”
- Japanese: “キョンギド”
- Japanese: “キョンギ道”
- Japanese: “京畿”
- Japanese: “京畿道”
- Kannada: “ಜಿಯಾಂಗ್ಗಿ ಪ್ರಾಂತ್ಯ”
- Kazakh: “Кёнгидо”
- Kazakh: “Кёңгидо”
- Khmer: “ខេត្តក្យុងគី”
- Korean: “경기”
- Korean: “경기도”
- Lao: “ແຂວງເກຢອງກິ”
- Latvian: “Kjongido province”
- Latvian: “Kjongido”
- Literary Chinese: “京畿道”
- Lithuanian: “Kiongi provincija”
- Lombard: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Malay: “Gyeonggi”
- Marathi: “ग्याँगी प्रांत”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Gyeonggi Dô̤”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kiaⁿ-ki-tō”
- Mingrelian: “კიონგიდოშ პროვინცია”
- Mongolian: “Кёнги муж”
- Mongolian: “Кёнги”
- Northern Frisian: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gyeonggi”
- Norwegian: “Gyeonggi”
- Ossetian: “Кёнгидо”
- Persian: “استان گیونگگی”
- Persian: “گیونگی-دو”
- Polish: “Gyeonggi”
- Portuguese: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Portuguese: “Gyeonggi”
- Portuguese: “Província de Gyeonggi”
- Quechua: “Gyeonggi pruwinsya”
- Romanian: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Russian: “Кёнгидо”
- Scots: “Gyeonggi Province”
- Scots: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Sinhala: “ග්යොංගි පළාත”
- Sinhala: “ග්යොංගි පළාත”
- Sinhala: “ග්යොංගි-දෝ”
- Sinhala: “ග්යොංගි”
- Slovak: “Kjonggi-do”
- Slovak: “Kjonggi”
- Slovak: “경기도”
- Slovenian: “Gjeongi”
- Slovenian: “Gyeonggi”
- Spanish: “Gyeonggi”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Gyeonggi”
- Sundanese: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Swahili: “Gyeonggi-do”
- Swedish: “Gyeonggi”
- Tagalog: “Gyeonggi”
- Tamil: “இக்யாங்கி மாநிலம்”
- Tamil: “கியேஓங்கி மாகாணம்”
- Telugu: “జయోంగి ప్రావిన్స్”
- Telugu: “జయోంగి రాష్ట్రభాగం”
- Thai: “จังหวัดคย็องกี”
- Tok Pisin: “Gyeonggi”
- Turkish: “Gyeonggi”
- Ukrainian: “Кьонгі”
- Ukrainian: “Провінція Кьонгі”
- Urdu: “گیئونگی صوبہ”
- Venetian: “Gyeonggi”
- Vietnamese: “Gyeonggi”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gyeonggi”
- Welsh: “Talaith Gyeonggi”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ گیونگی”
- Wu Chinese: “京畿道”
- Yue Chinese: “京畿道”
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