Gongsan-dong is an administrative
''dong'' in
Dong-gu, in northeastern
Daegu
Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea.
It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...
,
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
. It has an area of 83.78 km², most of which is vacant; its population is only 18,177. Slightly more than half of the people live in the dong's 38 apartment blocks.
The ''dong'' was first constituted in 1981. For much of the 1980s and 1990s, it was divided into two administrative ''dong'', but these were reunited into Gongsan-dong in 1998.
Gongsan Dam, which supplies drinking water for much of northern Daegu, is also located within the boundaries of Gongsan-dong. Land use in much of the ''dong'' is restricted due to regulations protecting the water supply and natural environment.
Legal dong
Because of the relatively low population density, Gongsan-dong encompasses a total of 14 legal ''dong''. This is the reverse of the usual situation in urban areas, where legal ''dong'' are subdivided into numerous administrative ''dong''.
*Jimyo-dong (智妙洞, 지묘동), site of the shrine of
Shin Sung-gyeom
*Dohak-dong (道鶴洞, 도학동), site of
Donghwasa
Donghwasa, also Donghwa Temple, is a Buddhist temple of the Jogye Order in northern Daegu, South Korea. The temple is located on the south side of Mt. Palgongsan, within the boundaries of Dohak-dong, Dong-gu, near Daegu's northern border. Th ...
temple
*Neungseong-dong (능성동)
*Jinin-dong (진인동)
*Baegan-dong (백안동)
*Migok-dong (미곡동)
*Yongsu-dong (용수동)
*Sinmu-dong (신무동)
*Midae-dong (미대동)
*Nae-dong (내동)
*Deokgok-dong (덕곡동)
*Songjeong-dong (송정동)
*Sinyong-dong (신용동)
*Jungdae-dong (중대동)
See also
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Geography of South Korea
South Korea is located in East Asia, on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula located out from the far east of the Asian landmass. The only country with a land border to South Korea is North Korea, lying to the north with of the border ...
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Subdivisions of South Korea
South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities (''gwangyeoksi'' ), 1 special city (''teukbyeolsi'' ), 1 special self-governing city (''teukbyeol-jachisi'' ), and 9 provinces ('' do'' ), including one ...
External links
Gongsan-dong government website, in Korean
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Dong District, Daegu
Neighbourhoods in South Korea