Daejeon

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Daejeon Metropolitan City is a metropolitan city in the centre of South Korea, and the capital of South Chungcheong Province. It is the fifth largest city of South Korea with a population of 1,438,778 at the end of the year of 2003.

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Before Gyeongbu railway passed through Daejeon, it was a small field called Hanbat. In 1905 Gyeongbu railway started to transport; a station was built on the way from Seoul to Busan. Soon Honam railway was built to split at Daejeon.

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In 1932, the capital of Chungnam province moved from Gongju to Daejeon.

Metropolitan city: REDIRECT metropolis...

South Korea: South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (Hangul: ????, Daehan Minguk ;), is a country located in East Asia, in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. It is commonly called Hanguk (Han Nation) or Namhan (South Han) by South Koreans and Namjos?n (South Chos?n) by North Korea....

South Chungcheong: redirect Chungcheongnam-do...