Seo-gu, Busan

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For a list of South Korean gu named Seo-gu, please see Seo-gu.

Seo-gu
Hangul:	서구
Hanja:	西區
Revised Romanization:	Seo-gu
McCune-Reischauer:	Sǒ-ku
Statistics
Area:	13.67 km²
Population:	139,210 February 2006 reg.[1]
Pop. density:	10183 people/km²
Administrative divisions:	14 administrative dong

Seo-gu (literally western gu) is a gu, or district, in south-west Busan, South Korea. Seo-gu covers a surface of 13.67 km² is home to about 140,000 people.

[edit] Administrative divisions

Seo-gu is divided into 8 legal dong, which altogether comprise 14 administrative dong, as follows:

• Dongdaesin-dong (3 administrative dong)
• Seodaesin-dong (3 administrative dong)
• Bumin-dong
• Ami-dong
• Chojang-dong
• Chungmu-dong
• Nambumin-dong (3 administrative dong)
• Amnam-dong

In 1998 Ami 1-dong and Ami 2-dong were merge into Ami-dong. In 2003 Seondaesin 2-dong was incorporated into Seondaesin 1-dong.

[edit] See also

• List of Korea-related topics
• Geography of South Korea
• Subdivisions of South Korea

[edit] External links

• Seo-gu website (in english)