Busan
Busan 부산 | |
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Metropolitan Ceety | |
| Busan Metropolitan Ceety | |
| transcription(s) | |
| • Hangul | 부산광역시 |
| • Hanja | 釜山廣域市 |
| • Revised Romanization | Busan Gwangyeoksi |
| • McCune-Reischauer | Pusan Kwangyŏksi |
 Montage o Busan | |
 Emblem o Busan | |
 Cairt o Sooth Korea wi Busan heichlichtit | |
| Country |  Sooth Korea |
| Region | Yeongnam |
| Districts | 15 |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Mayor-Cooncil |
| • Mayor | Huh Nam-Shik (Saenuri) |
| • Cooncil | Busan Metropolitan Cooncil |
| • Naitional Representation - Naitional Assembly | 18 / 299 6.0% (Tot Seats)18 / 245 7.3% (Constituency Seats)Leet
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| Area | |
| • Total | 767.35 km2 (296.28 sq mi) |
| Population (2010)[2] | |
| • Total | 3,614,950 |
| • Density | 4,700/km2 (12,000/sq mi) |
| • Dialect | Gyeongsang |
| Postal code | 600-010, 619-963 |
| Area code(s) | (+82) 051 |
| Flouer | Camellia flouer |
| Tree | Camellia |
| Bird | Seagull |
| Website | busan.go.kr (in Inglis) |
Busan (Offeecially Busan Metropolitan Ceety), umwhile spelled Pusan[3] (Korean pronunciation: [pusan]) is Sooth Korea's seicont lairgest metropolis efter Seoul, wi a population o aroond 3.6 million.[1] It is the lairgest port ceety in Sooth Korea an the fift lairgest port in the warld.[4] The ceety is locatit on the sootheastrenmaist tip o the Korean peninsula an faces the Korea Strait. The maist densely biggit up auries o the ceety are situatit in a nummer o nairae valleys atween the Nakdong River an Suyeong River, wi muntains separatin some o the destricts. Admeenistratively, it is designatit as a Metropolitan Ceety. The Busan metropolitan aurie is dividit intae 15 major admeenistrative destricts an a single coonty.
Internaitional relations
[eedit | eedit soorce]Twin touns an sister ceeties
[eedit | eedit soorce]Busan shares the teetle o sister ceety wi several coastal ceeties or provinces aroond the warld.[5]
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Friendship ceeties
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Shenzhen, Cheenae (2007)- Tianjin, Cheenae (2007)
Osaka, Japan (2008)- Chongqing, Cheenae (2010)
Bangkok, Thailand (2011)
Sister ports
[eedit | eedit soorce]The Port o Busan an aw haes 6 sister ports (leetit in order o dates).[8]
– Port o Soothampton, Unitit Kinrick (1978)
– Port o Seattle, USA (1981)- – Port o Osaka, Japan (1985) [9]
– Port o Rotterdam, Netherlands (1985)- – Port o New York & New Jersey, USA (1988)
- – Port o Shanghai, Cheenae (1994)
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ a b "Busan: Population and area of Administrative units". Dynamic Busan: Busan Metropolitan City. Retrieved 24 Mairch 2010.
- ↑ Korean Statistical Information Service (Korean) > Population and Household > Census Result (2010) > Population by Administrative district, Sex and Age / Alien by Administrative district and Sex Archived 2013-08-26 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 2010-06-02.
- ↑ This romanization o the ceety's name is in McCune-Reischauer. It wis uised prior tae the offeecial adoption o the Revised Romanization bi the Sooth Korean Government in 2000.
- ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ah2Znx0vQ580 Empty Containers Clog Busan Port as Trade Slumps, bloomberg.com - March 3, 2009 02:12 EST
- ↑ List of Busan's sister cities, Busan Metropolitan City; (in Inglis) [1], (in Korean) [2]
- ↑ "Barcelona internacional – Ciutats agermanades" (in Spanish). © 2006–2009 Ajuntament de Barcelona. Archived frae the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 13 Julie 2009. freemit airtin in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link) - ↑ "CÁC ĐỊA PHƯƠNG NƯỚC NGOÀI ĐÃ THIẾT LẬP QUAN HỆ HỮU NGHỊ HỢP TÁC VỚI TPHCM". mofahcm.gov.vn. 9 October 2010. Archived frae the original on 26 September 2015. Retrieved 8 Januar 2011.
- ↑ Port of Busan, Sister Ports, Busan
- ↑ http://www.city.osaka.jp/port/e_17_sister.html Archived 2007-03-13 at the Wayback Machine
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