Gyeonggi region
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Gyeonggi region () is the area of
Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of ...
, Incheon, and Gyeonggi-do, a part of
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...
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Gyeonggi region under North Korea's control

Kaesong Special City, Changpung County in North Hwanghae Province, and southwestern part of
Chorwon County Ch'ŏrwŏn County () is a ''kun'', or county, in Kangwŏn province, North Korea. Portions of it were once a single county together with the county of the same name in South Korea; other portions were added from neighbouring counties in the 19 ...
belong to Gyeonggi region. Historically, these regions belonged to Gyeonggi-do. South Korea calls this area the Unrecovered Gyeonggi Province (미수복 경기도). Regions of Korea {{korea-geo-stub