Keijō
Sign in to save, or Gyeongseong (), was an administrative district of Korea under Japanese rule that corresponds to the present Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
Key facts
- Former subdivision.conventional_long_name
- Keijō-fu
- Former subdivision.subdivision
- Former administrative district
- Former subdivision.nation
- Korea, Empire of Japan
- Former subdivision.native_name
- 京城府
- Former subdivision.today
- South Korea
- Former subdivision.image_coat
- File:Emblem of Gyeongseong-bu.svg
- Former subdivision.symbol_type
- Emblem of Keijo
- Former subdivision.image_map
- File:Keijō map of 1913 in English by the Imperial Japanese Government Railways.jpg
- Former subdivision.image_map_caption
- English map of Keijō made by Imperial Japanese Government Railways in 1913
- Former subdivision.stat_year1
- 1940
- Former subdivision.stat_pop1
- 1,142,000
- Chinese.title
- Keijō
- Chinese.hide
- no
- Chinese.kanji
- 京城府
- Chinese.hiragana
- けいじょうふ
- Chinese.romaji
- Keijō-fu
- Chinese.hangul
- 경성부, 게이조부
- Chinese.hanja
- 京城府
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, or Gyeongseong (), was an administrative district of Korea under Japanese rule that corresponds to the present Seoul, the capital of South Korea.
The name "Keijō" for "Seoul" remained in use in Japan for about a decade after the end of World War II. From the 1960s onwards, "Seoul" (ソウル - Souru) gained currency at the request of the South Korean government, and is the most commonly-used Japanese name today, with "Keijō" being relegated to historical or academic use only.