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Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang) is a province in eastern South Korea. |||} South Korea is divided into 8 Provinces ( do) 1 special autonomous province ( teukbyeol jachido) 6 metropolitan cities ( gwangyeoksi South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Gyeongsang province, remained a province of Korea until the country's division in 1945, then became part of South Korea. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Gyeongsang ( Gyeongsang-do) was one of the eight provinces of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty. Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries a civilization and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia. The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II, ending Japan The provincial capital and largest city is Daegu, which was the capital of Gyeongsang before 1896 and which is separately administered as a provincial-level Metropolitan City today. Daegu (pronounced) also spelled Taegu (pronounced) officially called Daegu Metropolitan City, is the fourth largest city in South Korea after In North and South Korea, Special Cities Metropolitan Cities and Directly Governed Cities are cities that have a status equivalent to that of Provinces
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Geography and climate
The province is part of the Yeongnam region, and is bounded on the east by the Sea of Japan (East Sea), on the south by Gyeongsangnam-do, on the west by Jeollabuk-do and Chungcheongbuk-do Provinces, and on the north by Gangwon-do Province. Yeongnam (literally "south of the passes" is the name of a region that coincides with the former Gyeongsang Province in what is now South Korea. Korea has traditionally been divided into a number of unofficial regions that reflect historical geographical and dialect boundaries within the peninsula. The Sea of Japan is a Marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean, bordered by Japan, Korea, North Korea and Russia Gyeongsangnam-do (South Gyeongsang is a province in the southeast of South Korea. Jeollabuk-do (North Jeolla is a province in the southwest of South Korea. Chungcheongbuk-do (North Chungcheong is a province in the centre of South Korea. During the summer, Gyeongsangbuk-do is the hottest province in South Korea. This is helped by the fact that the province is largely surrounded by mountains: the Taebaek Mountains in the east and the Sobaek Mountains in the west. The Taebaek Mountains are a mountain range in both North and South Korea. The Sobaek Mountains are a Mountain range cutting across the southern Korean peninsula.
Culture
Gyeongsangbuk-do is the homeland of the former kingdom of Silla and has retained much of its cultural tradition. Silla (57 BC – 935 AD was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. A number of artists, political leaders and scholars have come from the province.
Sister Province
French province (région) Alsace, France
Administrative divisions
Gyeongsangbuk-do is divided into 10 cities (si) and 13 counties (gun). France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, Alsace (Alsace alzas Alsatian and Elsass pre-1996 German: Elsaß; Alsatia is one of the 26 Regions of France, located on the eastern This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The names below are given in English, hangul, and hanja. Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated
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See also
External links
- Gyeongsangbuk-do provincial government English-language home page
- (French) Alsace/Gyeongsangbuk-do
- Gyeongsangbuk-do travel guide from Wikitravel
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