Seoul is divided into 25 gu or district.The gu vary greatly in area (from 10 to 47 km²) and population (from less than 140,000 to 630,000). Songpa has the most people, while Seocho, the largest area.
The government of each gu handles many of the functions that are handled by city governments in other jurisdictions.
Each gu is divided into "dong" or neighbourhoods. Some gu have only a few dong while others like Jongno-gu have a very large number of distinct neighborhoods.
Gu of Seoul consist of 522 administrative dongs in total. Dong are also sub-divided into 13,787 tong, which are further divided into 102,796 ban in total.
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