A republic in East Asia, occupying the southern half of the Korean Peninsula. South Korea is divided into 8 provinces (do), 1 special autonomous province (teukbyeol jachido), 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi), and 1 special city (teukbyeolsi). These are further subdivided into a variety of smaller entities, including cities (si), counties (gun), districts (gu), towns (eup), townships (myeon), neighborhoods (dong) and villages (ri).
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South Korea, south korea, korea, south, republic of korea
alternative term
korea, republic of
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LanguaL curation note: US FDA 1995 Code: KR
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http://www.langual.org/langual_thesaurus.asp?termid=R0274
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http://langual.org
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