Kaesong

Kaesong
Kaesong; 개성
	Municipal Ceety wi special status
	개성특급시
Korean transcription(s)
• Chosŏn'gŭl	개성특급시
• Hanja	開城特級市
• McCune-Reischauer	Kaesŏng-T'ŭkkŭpsi
• Revised Romanization	Gaeseong-Teukgeupsi
	Kaesong ceety center.
	Eik-name(s): Songdo (송도/松都) (Korean); " City of Pines "
	Note: Cairt shaws boondaries o umwhile Kaesŏng Directly Govrened Ceety.
Kintra	North Korea
Region	Haesŏ
Settled	c. 700 AD
Admeenistrative diveesions	24 dong, 3 ri
Area
• Total	1309 km2 (505 sq mi)
Population (2008)
• Total	308,440
• Dialect	Seoul

Kaesŏng (Gaeseong; Korean pronunciation: [kɛsɔŋ]) is a ceety in the province o Hwanghaebuk-do, soothren North Korea (DPRK), a umwhile Directly Governed Ceety, an the caipital o Korea durin the Koryo Dynasty. The ceety is near Kaesŏng Industrial Region an it contains the remains o the Manwoldae palace. It wis formally named Songdo while it wis the auncient caipital o Koryo. It prospered as a tred centre that produced Korean ginseng, which is famous internaitionally. It is nou the DPRK's licht industry centre. It haes a population o 308,440 as o 2008.^[1]

Sister Ceeties

(Cusco) (1990)
(Belém) (1994)
(Tacna) (1996)
(Kathmandu) (1992)
(Mumbai) (1999)
(Cartagena) (2002)

References

↑ national census report.pdf United Nations Statistics Division; 2008 Census of Population of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conducted on 1–15 October 2008 (pdf-file)^{[deid airtin]} Retrieved on 2009-03-01.

[Nkorea2008-1] tional census report.pdf United Nations Statistics Division; 2008 Census of Population of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea conducted on 1–15 October 2008 (pdf-file)^{[deid airtin]} Retrieved on 2009-03-01.

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