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City guide · South Korea

Seoul

A photograph of Seoul
Photograph · 라성민 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Seoul is 605.21 km² holding 9,579,449 people at the start of 2026, inside a metropolitan area of 26,037,000 spread over 12,685 km². The Han River bisects it, and the halves are not interchangeable: Gangbuk to the north carries the Joseon capital, Gangnam to the south was built in the last fifty years. Four mountains — Bugaksan, Inwangsan, Naksan and Namsan — frame the old centre, and Gyeongbokgung, completed in 1395, sits under the first of them. Twenty-five gu and 467 administrative dong are stitched together by a metro that carried around seven million passengers a day in 2024. A visitor will use six or seven of those districts.

Practical information
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Planning a visit

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Top things to see

Ranked by importance — sitelinks, pageviews and heritage status, not editor preference.

  1. 강남
    01 2 hours

    강남

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  2. 놀짱
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    놀짱

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    • Entertainment venue
  3. 민속촌
    03 2 hours

    민속촌

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    • Entertainment venue

How the city is laid out

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Getting around

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Turn this list into a plan

Set your days, your pace and the hours you actually want to be out. The planner works around closing days and travel time, and leaves room to eat.

Plan Seoul