Ansan
| Ansan | ||||
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| Korean alphabet : | 안산시 | |||
| Chinese characters : | 安 山 市 | |||
| Revised Romanization : | Ansan-si | |||
| McCune-Reischauer : | Ansan-si | |||
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| Province : | Gyeonggi-do | |||
| Coordinates : | 37 ° 19 ′ N , 126 ° 50 ′ E | |||
| Surface: | 144.78 km² | |||
| Residents: | 685,000 (as of 2004) | |||
| Population density : | 4,731 inhabitants per km² | |||
| Structure: | 2 gu , 22 dong | |||
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Ansan ( kor. 안산 ) is a city in the South Korean province of Gyeonggi-do . It is located southwest of the capital Seoul and is connected to it by the Seoul subway line 4 , among other things . It is also south of Incheon , which like Seoul is independent of the province, and west of the provincial capital Suwon .
Ansan is on the coast of the Yellow Sea , called the West Sea in Korea. Numerous islands lie in the administrative area of the city, the most famous and largest of which is Daebudo .
There are several colleges in Ansan including Ansan College , Ansan College of Technology , Seoul Institute of the Arts, and a Hanyang University campus .
Sihwa-ho is currently the world's largest turbine tidal power plant in Ansan .
Because of the large number of ethnic Korean immigrants from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , Ansan is twinned with this city.
Town twinning
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Anshan , People's Republic of China -
Las Vegas , United States -
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk , Russia -
Cholmsk , Russia
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Haenam , South Korea -
Cheongyang , South Korea
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Chuncheon , South Korea
Web links
- Official website (English)