Buk-gu (Busan)

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For a list of South Korean gu named Buk-gu, please see Buk-gu.

<tr> <td align=center style="background:#ccf; border-bottom:1px solid">Buk-gu</td><td style="border-top:1px solid">Image:Buk-gu (Busan).gif</td></tr> <tr> <td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid"> Hangul:</td> <td style="border-top: 1px solid; white-space: nowrap"> 북구</td></tr> <tr><td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid">Hanja:</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid; white-space: nowrap">北區</td></tr> <tr> <td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid"> Revised Romanization:</td> <td style="border-top:1px solid; white-space: nowrap"> Buk-gu</td> </tr><tr> <td align="right" style="border-top: 1px solid">McCune-Reischauer:</td><td style="border-top: 1px solid; white-space: nowrap">Puk-ku</td></tr><tr><td colspan=2 align=center style="border-top:1px solid">Statistics</td></tr> <tr><td align=right style="border-top:1px solid"> Area: </td><td style="border-top:1px solid">38.30 km²</td> </tr><tr><td align=right style="border-top:1px solid">Population: </td><td style="border-top:1px solid">336,753 October 2005 reg.[1]</td> </tr> <tr><td align=right style="border-top:1px solid">Pop. density: </td><td style="border-top:1px solid">8793 people/km² </td> </tr><tr><td align=right style="border-top:1px solid">Administrative divisions: </td><td style="border-top:1px solid">13 administrative dong</td> </tr><tr><td colspan=2 align=center style="border-top:1px solid">Image:Buk-gu BUSAN.PNG</td></tr>

Buk-gu (literally northern gu) is a gu, or district, in north central Busan, South Korea. Buk-gu covers a surface of 38.30 km² is home to about 335,000 people. It attained the status of gu in 1978.