Gyeonggi-do

Gyeonggi-do is the most populous province in South Korea. Its call, Gyeonggi, way "the vicinity surrounding the capital". Thus Gyeonggi-do may be translated as "province surrounding Seoul". The provincial capital is Suwon. Seoul South Korea's biggest city and national capital is inside the heart of the province but has been one at a time administered as a provincial-stage special metropolis since 1946. Incheon South Korea's 1/3-largest town is on the coast of the province and has been in addition administered as a provincial-level metropolitan city considering 1981. The 3 jurisdictions are collectively known as Sudogwon and cover eleven,730 km2, with a combined populace of 25.Five million amounting to over half of of the whole population of South Korea.

Gyeonggi-do has been a politically vital area for the reason that 18 BCE, while Korea become divided into three countries in the course of the Three Kingdoms period. Ever considering that King Onjo, the founder of Baekje, founded the authorities in Wiryeseong of Hanam, the Han River Valley turned into absorbed into Goguryeo within the mid-fifth century, and have become Silla's territory within the 12 months 553. Afterward, the present day place of Gyeonggi-do, one of the 9 states of Later Silla, become known as Hansanju.