๐ฐ๐ท Yeongju is a city in the far north region of North Gyeongsang province in South Korea. The city borders Bonghwa county to the east, Danyang county of North Chungcheong province to the west, Andong city and Yecheon county to the south, and Yeongwol county of Gangwon province to the north. Buseoksa Temple in Yeongju is outstanding as a representative temple of the Avatamsaka Sect of Silla Buddhism. Sosu Seowon is the first Seowon (Confucian academy) to have had national financial support by way of tax exemptions.
Yeongju is also home to a large Novelis Aluminum plant, employing approximately 1,000 workers. This plant provides flat-rolled aluminum sheet products to customers throughout Asia.
1Administrative divisions Yeongju is divided into nineteen primary divisions: one eup (์) or town, nine myeon (๋ฉด) or township, and nine dong (๋): Punggi-eup, ํ๊ธฐ์ ่ฑๅบ้; Buseok-myeon ๋ถ์๋ฉด ๆตฎ็ณ้ข; Munsu-myeon ๋ฌธ์๋ฉด ๆๆฎ้ข; Pyeongeun-myeon ํ์๋ฉด ๅนณๆฉ้ข; Isan-myeon ์ด์ฐ๋ฉด ไผๅฑฑ้ข; Bongheon-myeon ๋ดํ๋ฉด ้ณณๅณด้ข; Sunheung-myeon, ์ํฅ๋ฉด ้ ่้ข; Jangsu-myeon ์ฅ์๋ฉด ้ทๅฃฝ้ข; Anjeong-myeon ์์ ๋ฉด ๅฎๅฎ้ข; Dansan-myeon ๋จ์ฐ๋ฉด ไธนๅฑฑ้ข; Yeongju-1-dong ์์ฃผ1๋ ๆฆฎๅทไธๆด; Yeongju-2-dong ์์ฃผ2๋ ๆฆฎๅทไบๆด; Gaheung-1-dong ๊ฐํฅ1๋ ๅฏ่ไธๆด; Gaheung-2-dong ๊ฐํฅ2๋ ๅฏ่ไบๆด; Hyucheon-1-dong ํด์ฒ1๋ ไผๅทไธๆด; Hyucheon-2-dong ํด์ฒ2๋ ไผๅทไบๆด; Hyucheon-3-dong ํด์ฒ3๋ ไผๅทไธๆด; Sangmang-dong ์๋ง๋ ไธๆๆด; Hamang-dong ํ๋ง๋ ไธๆๆด; The eup and myeon are further divided into numerous ri (๋ฆฌ) or villages: โข; โข Seongnae-ri ์ฑ๋ด๋ฆฌ ๅๅ ง้; โข Dongbu-ri ๋๋ถ๋ฆฌ ๆฑ้จ้; โข Sanbeop-ri ์ฐ๋ฒ๋ฆฌ ๅฑฑๆณ้; โข Migok-ri ๋ฏธ๊ณก๋ฆฌ ๅณ่ฐท้; โข Samga-ri ์ผ๊ฐ๋ฆฌ ไธ่ก้; โข Ukgeum-ri ์ฑ๊ธ๋ฆฌ ้้ฆ้; โข Geumgye-ri ๊ธ๊ณ๋ฆฌ ้้ท้; โข Gyochon-ri ๊ต์ด๋ฆฌ ๆ กๆ้; โข Seobu-ri ์๋ถ๋ฆฌ ่ฅฟ้จ้; โข Baek-ri ๋ฐฑ๋ฆฌ ็ฝ้; โข Baeksin-ri ๋ฐฑ์ ๋ฆฌ ็ฝๆฐ้; โข Changrak-ri ์ฐฝ๋ฝ๋ฆฌ ๆๆจ้; โข Sucheol-ri ์์ฒ ๋ฆฌ ๆฐด้ต้; โข Jeongu-ri ์ ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ๅ้ฑ้; โข Namdae-ri ๋จ๋๋ฆฌ ๅๅคง้; โข Bukji-ri ๋ถ์ง๋ฆฌ ๅๆ้; โข Imgok-ri ์๊ณก๋ฆฌ ๆ่ฐท้; โข Socheon-ri ์์ฒ๋ฆฌ ้ถๅท้; โข Nogok-ri ๋ ธ๊ณก๋ฆฌ ้ญฏ่ฐท้; โข Yongam-ri ์ฉ์๋ฆฌ ้พๅฒฉ้; โข Ugok-ri ์ฐ๊ณก๋ฆฌ ๆ่ฐท้; โข Sangseok-ri ์์๋ฆฌ ไธ็ณ้; โข Gamgok-ri ๊ฐ๊ณก๋ฆฌ ็่ฐท้; โข Bogye-ri ๋ณด๊ณ๋ฆฌ ๅฏถๆบช้; โข Seungmun-ri ์น๋ฌธ๋ฆฌ ็นฉ้้; โข Manbang-ri ๋ง๋ฐฉ๋ฆฌ ่ฌ่ณ้; โข Jeokdong-ri ์ ๋๋ฆฌ ่ตคๆฑ้; โข Gwonseon-ri ๊ถ์ ๋ฆฌ ๆฌๅ ้; โข Wolho-ri ์ํธ๋ฆฌ ๆๅผ้; โข Beolsa-ri ๋ฒ์ฌ๋ฆฌ ไผ่ณ้; โข Tansan-ri ํ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ็ญๅฑฑ้; โข Sudo-ri ์๋๋ฆฌ ๆฐดๅณถ้; โข Joje-ri ์กฐ์ ๋ฆฌ ๅฉๆขฏ้; โข Pyeongeun-ri ํ์๋ฆฌ ๅนณๆฉ้; โข Gangdong-ri ๊ฐ๋๋ฆฌ ๆฑๆฑ้; โข Jigok-ri ์ง๊ณก๋ฆฌ ่่ฐท้; โข Oun-ri ์ค์ด๋ฆฌ ๆขงไบ้; โข Cheonbon-ri ์ฒ๋ณธ๋ฆฌ ๅทๆฌ้; โข Geumgwang-ri ๊ธ๊ด๋ฆฌ ้ๅ ้; โข Yongheol-ri ์ฉํ๋ฆฌ ้พ็ฉด้; โข Won-ri ์๋ฆฌ ้ข้; โข Sinam-ri ์ ์๋ฆฌ ๆฐๅฒฉ้; โข Jidong-ri ์ง๋๋ฆฌ ๆฑ ๆด้; โข Seokpo-ri ์ํฌ๋ฆฌ ็ณๆตฆ้; โข Yongsang-ri ์ฉ์๋ฆฌ ้พไธ้; โข Sincheon-ri ์ ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๆฐๅท้; โข Unmun-ri ์ด๋ฌธ๋ฆฌ ้ฒๆ้; โข Duwol-ri ๋์๋ฆฌ ๆๆ้; โข Naerim-ri ๋ด๋ฆผ๋ฆฌ ๅ งๆ้; โข Dusan-ri ๋์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๆๅฑฑ้; โข Ohyeon-ri ์คํ๋ฆฌ ๆขงๅณด้; โข Daechon-ri ๋์ด๋ฆฌ ๅคงๆ้; โข Hancheon-ri ํ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๅฏๆณ้; โข Yujeon-ri ์ ์ ๋ฆฌ ๆณ็ฐ้; โข Nojwa-ri ๋ ธ์ข๋ฆฌ ้ญฏไฝ้; โข Hachon-ri ํ์ด๋ฆฌ ไธๆ้; โข Taejang-ri ํ์ฅ๋ฆฌ ๅฐๅบ้; โข Jidong-ri ์ง๋๋ฆฌ ๆฑ ๆด้; โข Seokgyo-ri ์๊ต๋ฆฌ ็ณๆฉ้; โข Eupnae-ri ์๋ด๋ฆฌ ้ๅ ง้; โข Naejuk-ri ๋ด์ฃฝ๋ฆฌ ๅ ง็ซน้; โข Cheonggu-ri ์ฒญ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ้้ฑ้; โข Baejeom-ri ๋ฐฐ์ ๋ฆฌ ่ฃตๅบ้; โข Deokhyeon-ri ๋ํ๋ฆฌ ๅพทๅณด้; โข Bangu-ri ๋ฐ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ็ค้ฑ้; โข Dujeon-ri ๋์ ๋ฆฌ ่ฑ็ฐ้; โข Galsan-ri ๊ฐ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ่ๅฑฑ้; โข Paji-ri ํ์ง๋ฆฌ ่ญ่้; โข Seonggok-ri ์ฑ๊ณก๋ฆฌ ๆ่ฐท้; โข Hwagi-ri ํ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ ่ฑๅฒ้; โข Soryong-ri ์๋ฃก๋ฆฌ ๅฐ้พ้; โข Homun-ri ํธ๋ฌธ๋ฆฌ ๅฅฝๆ้; โข Sinjeon-ri ์ ์ ๋ฆฌ ๆฐ็ฐ้; โข Saenghyeon-ri ์ํ๋ฆฌ ็ๅณด้; โข Bongam-ri ๋ด์๋ฆฌ ้ณณๅฒฉ้; โข Yongsan-ri ์ฉ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ้พๅฑฑ้; โข Yeoreuk-ri ์ฌ๋ฅต๋ฆฌ ๆฑๅ้; โข Muk-ri ๋ฌต๋ฆฌ ๅขจ้; โข Naejul-ri ๋ด์ค๋ฆฌ ๅ ง่้; โข Irwon-ri ์ผ์๋ฆฌ ้ธๅ้; โข Ansim-ri ์์ฌ๋ฆฌ ๅฎๅฟ้; โข Ongam-ri ์น์๋ฆฌ ็ฎๅฒฉ้; โข Danchon-ri ๋จ์ด๋ฆฌ ไธนๆ้; โข Daepyeong-ri ๋ํ๋ฆฌ ๅคงๅช้; โข Ogye-ri ์ค๊ณ๋ฆฌ ๆขงๆบช้; โข Dongwon-ri ๋์๋ฆฌ ๆฑๅ ้; โข Sacheon-ri ์ฌ์ฒ๋ฆฌ ๆฒๅท้; โข Gugu-ri ๊ตฌ๊ตฌ๋ฆฌ ไน้ฑ้; โข Byeongsan-ri ๋ณ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ๅฑๅฑฑ้; โข Okdae-ri ์ฅ๋๋ฆฌ ็ๅธถ้; โข Dangok-ri ๋จ๊ณก๋ฆฌ ไธน่ฐท้; โข Jwaseok-ri ์ข์๋ฆฌ ๅ็ณ้; โข Marak-ri ๋ง๋ฝ๋ฆฌ ้ฆฌ่ฝ้.
1Transport: Road Yeongju connected by highway with these routes: โข Jungang Expressway to Busan, Daegu โข National Route 5 โข National Route 28 to Yeongcheon, Gyeongju, Pohang โข National Route 36 to Boryeong, Gongju, Sejong, Cheongju, Chungju, Jecheon.
1Transport: Rail Rail service to Yeongju Station is also available, and is located on the Jungang Line, the Yeongdong Line and the Gyeongbuk Line.
1Yeongju has a population of over 113,930 people. Yeongju also forms part of the wider Yeongnam Region which has a population of over 13,169,678 people.
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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Yeongju has links with:
๐จ๐ณ Bozhou, China ๐ฏ๐ต Fujinomiya, Japan ๐จ๐ณ Jining, China ๐น๐ผ Nantou City, Taiwan ๐จ๐ณ Shaoguan, China๐บ๐ธ Portsmouth 36.834
๐บ๐ธ Hopkinsville 36.85
๐บ๐ธ Virginia Beach 36.851
๐ฉ๐ฟ Aรฏn Bรฉnian 36.8
Locations Near: Yeongju 128.62,36.8265
๐ฐ๐ท Yecheon 128.457,36.656 d: 23.9
๐ฐ๐ท Andong 128.728,36.565 d: 30.7
๐ฐ๐ท Mungyeong 128.187,36.586 d: 47
๐ฐ๐ท Jecheon 128.191,37.133 d: 51.1
๐ฐ๐ท Sangju 128.159,36.416 d: 61.5
๐ฐ๐ท Chungju 127.934,36.972 d: 63.1
๐ฐ๐ท Gumi 128.385,36.111 d: 82.3
๐ฐ๐ท Samcheok 129.161,37.444 d: 83.8
Antipodal to: Yeongju -51.38,-36.827
๐บ๐พ Maldonado -54.95,-34.9 d: 19628.6
๐ง๐ท Rio Grande -52.099,-32.041 d: 19478.9
๐บ๐พ Ciudad de la Costa -55.95,-34.817 d: 19546.4
๐ง๐ท Pelotas -52.341,-31.763 d: 19445.2
๐บ๐พ Montevideo -56.198,-34.907 d: 19531.3
๐ฆ๐ท Mar del Tuyรบ -56.667,-36.533 d: 19542.6
๐บ๐พ Canelones -56.284,-34.538 d: 19504.3
๐ฆ๐ท Pinamar -56.85,-37.1 d: 19528.2