'''SeoulSeul''' ({{Audio|ko-Seoul.ogg|listen}}<!--please do not repeat info already in infobox, e.g. Korean: 서울--> {{IPA2|sʌultinglash}}) is the [[capital]]Janubiy and largest [[cityKoreya]] ofning [[South Koreapoytaxt]]i. With10 overmilliondan tenko'p millionaxoliga people,ega SeoulSeul isdunyoning oneyirik ofshaharlaridan thebiriga world's largest [[city proper|cities]]kiradi. It is also the world's second largest [[List of metropolitan areas by population|metropolitan area]], the [[Seoul National Capital Area]] - which includes the major port city of [[Incheon]] and satellite towns in [[Gyeonggi-do]], having almost 23 million inhabitants. <ref>R.L. Forstall, R.P. Greene, and J.B. Pick, [http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/cityfutures/papers/webpapers/cityfuturespapers/session3_4/3_4whicharethe.pdf "Which are the largest? Why published populations for major world urban areas vary so greatly"], City Futures Conference, (University of Illinois at Chicago, July 2004){{ndash}} Table 5 (p.34)</ref> Almost half of South Korea's population lives in the Seoul National Capital Area, and nearly one quarter in Seoul itself, making it the country's political, cultural, and economic centre. As a [[Special cities of Korea|Special City]], it is administered directly by the national government.
The city is located on the basin of the [[Han River (Korea)|Han River]] in the country's northwest. The [[North Korea]]n border lies about 50 km to the north.
