Gunsan
Sign in to saveGunsan (; ), also romanized as Kunsan, is a city in North Jeolla Province, South Korea. It is on the south bank of the Geum River just upstream from its exit into the Yellow Sea. It has emerged as a high-tech manufacturing industrial city and an international trade seaport that is approximately southwest of Seoul on the midwest coast of the Korean Peninsula.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gunsan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipal City
- Settlement.translit_lang1
- Korean
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type1
- Hangul
- Settlement.translit_lang1_type2
- Hanja
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info3
- Gunsan-si
- Settlement.translit_lang1_info4
- Kunsan-si
- Settlement.image_caption
- From the left: Daeya Station, Haemang Cave, Former Gunsan Branch of Korean Food Corporation, Teddy Bear Museum, Gunsan City Hall, Dunyul-dong Cathedral, Seonyudo
- Settlement.image_map
- North Jeolla-Gunsan.svg
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location in South Korea
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.population_blank1_title
- Dialect
- Settlement.population_blank1
- Jeolla
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 377.72 <!--
- Settlement.population_total
- 264,656
- Settlement.population_as_of
- September 2024
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Article
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Economy
- Culture
- Tourist attractions
- Festival
- Museum
- Park
- Climate
- Food
- Education
- Primary and secondary schools
- Universities
- Shopping
- Transportation
- Port
- Airport
- Island
- Twin towns – sister cities
- Notable people from Gunsan
- See also
- References
- Sources
- External links
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| government_footnotes = 2—is the biggest discount shopping mall in Gunsan with an indoor parking lot from the fourth to seventh floor which provides shopping convenience.