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Location |
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| The city is geographically located between 127¡Æ33'21"and
127¡Æ14'54" in the east longitude, and 36¡Æ10'50"
through 36¡Æ29'47" in the north latitude. It is in
the same latitude as Athens, Lisbon, and San Francisco. |
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| The city is located in the center of South Korea: 167.3
km from Seoul, 294 km from Busan, and 169 km from Gwangju. It is also
the gateway between Yeongnam province and Honam province. It is an
important place where traffic diverges into two major expressways,
the Gyungbu Expressway going to the east and the Honam Expressway
to the west. It will be the hub of national traffic both in name and
reality, after the rapid transit railway has been completed. |
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Area |
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| Daejeon is the fifth largest city among South Korea's
top six cities, including Seoul, Busan, Daegu, Incheon, and Gwangju.
Its population was 1,390,510 and it cover an area of 539.83 km©÷
at the end of 2000. Comparing areas of the boroughs, Yuseong-gu is
the largest borough of the city; the second is Dong-gu; the third
is Seo-gu; the fourth is Daedeok-gu; and Jung-gu is the smallest. |
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