Yeongdo District

Yeongdo

영도구
Yeongdo 영도구
Autonomous District
Korean transcription(s)
• Hanja	影島區
• Revised Romanization	Yeongdo-gu
• McCune-Reischauer	Yǒngdo-ku
Country	South Korea
Region	Yeongnam
Provincial level	Busan
Administrative divisions	11 administrative dong
Area
• Total	14.15 km2 (5.46 sq mi)
Population (2017)
• Total	124,026
• Density	8,800/km2 (23,000/sq mi)
• Dialect	Gyeongsang
Website	Yeongdo District Office

Yeongdo District is a gu in Busan, South Korea. The gu itself is limited to Yeong-do (Yeong Island) located on the south edge of central Busan. It attained the status of gu in 1957.

The Korea Maritime and Ocean University and the National Maritime Museum of Korea are located in Yeongdo-gu.

Origin of the Name "Yeongdo"

Former name of Yeong-do(Yeong Isalnd) was Jeolyeong-do(Jeolyeong Island).

Mythologically, horses that can run thousand miles, so-called "Chollima", lived at this island. Because the horses lived in this island could run so fast that their shadows could not follow them, this island had been called as "Jeolyeong-do".

After calling this island as "Jeolyeong-do", while South Korea government arranging their administrative divisions' name, they named this island as "Yeongdo-gu" except "Jeol".

Administrative divisions

Yeongdo-gu is divided into 22 legal dong, which altogether comprise 11 administrative dong, as follows:

Legal dong	Administrative dong
Namhang-dong 1-ga	Namhang-dong
Namhang-dong 2-ga
Namhang-dong 3-ga
Daegyo-dong 1-ga
Daegyo-dong 2-ga
Daepyeong-dong 1-ga
Daepyeong-dong 2-ga
Daepyeong-dong 3-ga
Yeongseon-dong 1-ga	Yeongseon-1-dong
Yeongseon-dong 2-ga	Yeongseon-1-dong
Yeongseon-dong 3-ga	Yeongseon-2-dong
Yeongseon-song 4-ga	Yeongseon-2-dong
Sinseon-dong 1-ga	Sinseon-dong
Sinseon-dong 2-ga
Sinseon-dong 3-ga
Bongnae-dong 1-ga	Bongnae-1-dong
Bongnae-dong 2-ga
Bongnae-dong 3-ga
Bongnae-dong 4-ga	Bongnae-2-dong
Bongnae-dong 5-ga	Bongnae-2-dong
Cheonghak-dong	Cheonghak-1-dong
Cheonghak-dong	Cheonghak-2-dong
Dongsam-dong	Dongsam-1-dong
	Dongsam-2-dong
	Dongsam-3-dong