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South Korea is made up of 22 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities (gwangyeoksi광역시/廣域市), 1 special city (teukbyeolsi특별시/特別市), 1 special self-governing city (teukbyeol-jachisi특별자치시/特別自治市), and 14 provinces (do도/道), including three special self-governing provinces (teukbyeol jachido특별자치도/特別自治道) and five claimed by the ROK government.[1][2] These are further subdivided into a variety of smaller entities, including cities (si시/市), counties (gun군/郡), districts (gu구/區), towns (eup읍/邑), townships (myeon면/面), neighborhoods (dong동/洞) and villages (ri리/里).[3]
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