Metropolitan city
Gwangju
- Korean: 광주광역시
In Jeonnam-Gwangju, Republic of Korea
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Source: law.go.kr, checked (+2 more)Sources
- law.go.kr · checked Korea National Law Information Center (law.go.kr, law ID 015064), read 2026-10-12: Special Act on the Establishment of Jeonnam-Gwangju Integrated Special City (Act No. 21446, 2026-03-05, in force 2026-07-01), art. 7(1) abolishes Gwangju Metropolitan City and South Jeolla Province (전라남도와 광주광역시를 각각 폐지). valid_to set to 2026-06-30, the day before the act took effect; the row is kept for history and its member link to kr-x-jeonnam-gwangju. For: Gwangju (name, type and address code)
- wikidata.org · checked Korean names (ko) from official Korean administrative names / Wikidata ko labels, read 2026-10-12. For: Gwangju (name, type and address code)
- github.com · checked geoBoundaries (Runfola et al.) gbOpen KOR ADM1 (simplified GeoJSON; boundary year 2021, build Dec 12, 2023; underlying source: Natural Earth, licence: Public Domain; gbOpen CC BY 4.0), read 2026-10-12: name and outline of this first-level division. Code: ISO 3166-2 KR-29 from Debian iso-codes (salsa.debian.org/iso-codes-team/iso-codes, data/iso_3166-2.json), matched by name, cross-checked with Natural Earth 10m admin-1 (public domain). For: Gwangju (name, type and address code)
- github.com · checked geoBoundaries (Runfola et al.) gbOpen KOR ADM1 simplified GeoJSON (boundary year 2021, build Dec 12, 2023; source Natural Earth; gbOpen CC BY 4.0), read 2026-10-12: outline, made valid with ST_MakeValid; flags de_jure=t de_facto=t. For: Gwangju boundary
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